Notes from the field: transplant-transmitted Balamuthia mandrillaris --- Arizona, 2010.
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.
D000328:Adult; D000562:Amebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology / Q000635:transmission*; D056894:Amoebozoa / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000953:Antigens, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis; D001130:Arizona; D001921:Brain / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014019:Tissue Donors
D000953:Antigens, Protozoan; D016054:DNA, Protozoan