%0 Journal Article %J MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep %D 2010 %T Notes from the field: transplant-transmitted Balamuthia mandrillaris --- Arizona, 2010. %A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) %K Adult %K Amebiasis %K Amoebozoa %K Antigens, Protozoan %K Arizona %K Brain %K DNA, Protozoan %K Encephalitis %K Fatal Outcome %K Humans %K Magnetic Resonance Imaging %K Organ Transplantation %K Tissue Donors %X

On August 23, 2010, CDC was notified regarding two organ transplant recipients in Arizona who had encephalitis with multiple ring-enhancing lesions revealed by cerebral magnetic resonance imaging. The common organ donor, a Hispanic male landscaper aged 27 years, had died in Arizona from a presumed stroke on July 21. He had a large skin lesion for approximately 6 months on his back that he had attributed to an insect bite. The ill recipients, a male liver recipient aged 56 years, and a male recipient of a kidney and pancreas aged 24 years, received organ transplants on July 22. In addition, two other recipients received organs from this donor: an adult male heart recipient received his transplant in California on July 22, and an adult male kidney recipient received his transplant in Utah on July 23.

%B MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep %V 59 %P 1182 %8 Sep %G eng %N 36 %M 20847722 %R mm5936a4 [pii]