Pulmonary infection with M. kansasii in a renal transplant patient.
A 24-year-old man developed a severe pleuropulmonary infection with Mycobacterium kansasii 18 months after receiving a kidney transplant from his mother. Intestinal malabsorption with severe diarrhea and a skin abscess disappeared and his pneumonia was cured when Rifampin was administered. This suggested that generalized dissemination with M. kansasii may have been present.
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012293:Rifampin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*
D012293:Rifampin