Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis in Kidney Transplant Recipient, North Carolina, USA, 2023

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Phadke, Gautam M. ; Gajurel, Kiran ; Kasten, Jennifer ; DeLeon-Carnes, Marlene ; Ramos, Carmen ; Karpathy, Sandor E. ; Gleaton, Arlyn N. ; Adams, Sydney N. ; Annambhotla, Pallavi D. ; Basavaraju, Sridhar V. ; Williams, Carl ; Paddock, Christopher D.
  More +
• Description:
  Spotted fever rickettsiosis is rarely observed in solid organ transplant recipients, and all previously reported cases have been associated with tick bite months to years after transplantation. We describe a kidney transplant recipient in North Carolina, USA, who had a moderately severe Rickettsia parkeri infection develop during the immediate posttransplant period.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis in Kidney Transplant Recipient, North Carolina, USA, 2023
  • Humans
  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Rickettsia
  • North Carolina
  • Rickettsia Infections
  • Male
  • Transplant Recipients
  • Middle Aged
  More +
• Keywords:
  • Rickettsia
  • bacteria
  • vector-borne infections
  • Rickettsia parkeri
  • rickettsiosis
  • kidney transplant
  • Amblyomma maculatum
  • Gulf Coast tick
  • ticks
  • North Carolina
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2024; 30(7):1459-1462
• Pubmed ID:
  38916804
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11210670
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/158110/cdc_158110_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 692.52 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:58c43d20b22086bf7574c3f4816d69d4ec88e859582a23b28153601cd969f29626e8b3e85daa149ab561362dea86e9fed0e4829875fa4b628353c1af3254df28