Epidemiologic evidence of transmission of donor-related bacterial infection through a transplanted heart

P Coll; I Montserrat; M Ballester; F March; C Moya; D Obrador; M Gurgui; G Verger; G Prats; J M Caralps-Riera

Epidemiologic evidence of transmission of donor-related bacterial infection through a transplanted heart

J Heart Lung Transplant. 1997 Apr;16(4):464-7.

Authors

P Coll¹, I Montserrat, M Ballester, F March, C Moya, D Obrador, M Gurgui, G Verger, G Prats, J M Caralps-Riera

Affiliation

¹ Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 9154959

Abstract

This study describes a patient who had fulminant infectious myocarditis as a result of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus after receiving a heart transplant from an infected donor. There was complete concordance of typing results between donor and recipient strains that were different from the 20 isolates with which they were compared. Molecular epidemiologic study provided compelling evidence that a transplanted organ can transmit a bacterial infection from the donor to the recipient.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Bacterial Infections / pathology
Bacterial Infections / transmission*
Fatal Outcome
Heart Transplantation / pathology
Heart Transplantation / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Methicillin Resistance
Middle Aged
Myocarditis / diagnosis*
Myocarditis / pathology
Myocardium / pathology
Postoperative Complications / diagnosis
Postoperative Complications / pathology
Risk
Staphylococcal Infections / pathology
Staphylococcal Infections / transmission*
Tissue Donors / statistics & numerical data*