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Donor‐derived infections: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice
Author(s) -
Wolfe Cameron R.,
Ison Michael G.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1399-0012
pISSN - 0902-0063
DOI - 10.1111/ctr.13547
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , bacteremia , guideline , transplantation , epidemiology , meningitis , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , disease , pediatrics , antibiotics , surgery , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
These updated guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Community of Practice of the American Society of Transplantation will review the current state of the art of donor‐derived infections. Specifically, the guideline will summarize standardized definitions and approaches to defining imputability, updated data on the epidemiology of donor‐derived infections, and approaches to risk mitigation against transmission of infections. This update will additionally provide guidance on the use of HIV+ donors in HIV+ recipients, the use of HCV‐viremic donors in non‐viremic recipients, donors with endemic infections, and donors with bacteremia, meningitis, and encephalitis. Lastly, the guidance will summarize an approach to recipients with a suspected donor‐derived infection.