| Title | Notes from the field: transplant-transmitted Balamuthia mandrillaris --- Arizona, 2010 |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Journal | MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 36 |
| Pagination | 1182 |
| Date Published | Sep 17 |
| ISSN | 1545-861X (Electronic) 0149-2195 (Linking) |
| Accession Number | 20847722 |
| Keywords | Adult, Amebiasis / diagnosis / drug therapy / pathology / *transmission, Amoebozoa / genetics / immunology / *isolation & purification, Antigens, Protozoan / analysis, Arizona, Brain / parasitology / pathology, DNA, Protozoan / analysis, Encephalitis / diagnosis / drug therapy / *etiology / pathology, Fatal Outcome, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Organ Transplantation / *adverse effects, Tissue Donors |
| Abstract | 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. |
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| Notify Library Reference ID | 4 |
