Infections in Organ
Transplant Recipients

 

 

Table of Contents   

 

I. Viruses

         Cytomegalovirus - Paschalis Vergidis and Raymund R. Razonable

         Human herpesvirus-6 - Danielle M. Zerr and Raymund R. Razonable

         Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus - Paolo Grossi

         Varicella zoster - Maha Assi, Scott James and David Kimberlin  

         Herpes simplex virus - Scott H. James and David W. Kimberlin

         Human papillomavirus - Peter Chin Hong, John B. Lough, Juan A. Robles

         EBV-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder - Oriol Manuel and Atul Humar

         HIV-1 - Shirish Huprikar

         Parvovirus - Albert Eid

         Respiratory Viral Infections - Deepali Kumar         

         BK Virus - Parmjeet Randhawa

         West Nile Virus - Marilyn Levi

II. Bacteria

         Enterococci - Katherine Reyes and Marcus Zervos

         M. tuberculosis - Patricia Munoz

         Nontuberculous mycobacteria - Eric Cober and Daniel Kaul

         Staphylococcus aureus - Paschalis Vergidis and Robin Patel

         Legionella - M.L. Pedro-Botet

         C. difficile - Erik Dubberke

         Nocardia  - S.M. Hosseini-Moghaddam and Shahid Husain

III. Mycoses

         Aspergillosis  - Nina Singh

         Zygomycosis - Thomas Walsh, Samuel Shoham, Emmanuel Roilides

         Filamentous fungi other than Aspergillus and zygomycetes  - Sanjay Revankar

         Coccidiomycosis  - Janis E. Blair

         Candidiasis - Luis Espinosa-Aguilar and Graeme N. Forrest

         Cryptococcosis - Nina Singh

         Histoplasmosis - C.A. Hage, M.D. Pescovitz, Joseph Wheat

         Pneumocystis jirovecii  - Julian Carlos Torre-Cisneros

IV. Other Pathogens

         Toxoplasma gondii  - J. Montoya

         Trypanosoma cruzi - Roberta Lattes

         Strongyloidiasis - Paolo Lichtenberger

V. Infectious Disease Syndromes

         Pneumonia - Garth Garrison and Kevin M. Chan

         Diarrhea - Aruna Subramanian

         Biliary and abdominal infections - Nasia Safdar

         Urinary Tract Infections - Lopez Medrano and Jose M. Aguado

         Surgical Site Infections - Hugo Bonatti and Robert Sawyer

         Cytopenia - Charulata Ramaprasad and Kenneth J. Pursell

         Immune reconstitution syndrome - H.Y. Sun and Nina Singh

VI. Miscellaneous

         Donor and allograft transmitted infections  - Michael G. Ison

         Immunization - Steven Burdette and Logan McCool

         Pre-transplant recipient evaluation - Michele Morris

         Infections associated with specific immunosuppressive agents - Steven Burdette and H.Y. Sun