Record number:
676
Adverse Occurrence type:
MPHO Type:
Time to detection:
7 weeks
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:
Anorexia, fever, fatigue, diarrhoea, reduced ejection fraction, elevated troponin level
Demonstration of imputability or root cause:
Seropositive donors, seroconversion in recipients; Trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes in endomyocardial biopsy, parasitaemia by PCR and trypomastigotes in blood culture. Blood donors were seronegative. Six other patients had received a liver or kidney from these organ donors. None showed evidence of T. cruzi infection.
Imputability grade:
2 Probable
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