Severe Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient: A Review of Ehrlichiosis in the Immunocompromised Patient
| Title: | Severe Ehrlichia chaffeensis Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient: A Review of Ehrlichiosis in the Immunocompromised Patient |
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| Authors: | Nasia Safdar, Robert B. Love, Dennis G. Maki |
| Source: | Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 8, Iss 3, Pp 320-323 (2002) |
| Publisher Information: | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002. |
| Publication Year: | 2002 |
| Collection: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Subject Terms: | ehrlichiosis, immunocompromised host, thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura, United States, Medicine, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216 |
| More Details: | We describe a case of human ehrlichiosis in a lung transplant recipient and review published reports on ehrlichiosis in immunocompromised patients. Despite early therapy with doxycycline, our patient had unusually severe illness with features of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Of 23 reported cases of ehrlichiosis in immunocompromised patients, organ failure occurred in all patients and 6 (25%) died. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1080-6040 1080-6059 |
| Relation: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/3/01-0249_article; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6040; https://doaj.org/toc/1080-6059 |
| DOI: | 10.3201/eid0803.010249 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/3249a7a6acd54fd683fe65797da74073 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.3249a7a6acd54fd683fe65797da74073 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 10806040 10806059 |
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| DOI: | 10.3201/eid0803.010249 |
| Published in: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
| Language: | English |