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Case of Paracoccus yeei infection documented in a transplanted heart
Author(s) -
Schweiger M.,
Stiegler P.,
Scarpatetti M.,
Wasler A.,
Sereinigg M.,
Prenner G.,
Tscheliessnigg K.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
transplant infectious disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1399-3062
pISSN - 1398-2273
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2010.00571.x
Subject(s) - medicine , myocarditis , ciprofloxacin , heart transplantation , transplantation , polymerase chain reaction , pathology , cardiology , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , gene , biochemistry , chemistry , biology
M. Schweiger, P. Stiegler, M. Scarpatetti, A. Wasler, M. Sereinigg, G. Prenner, K. Tscheliessnigg. Case of Paracoccus yeei infection documented in a transplanted heart.
Transpl Infect Dis 2011: 13: 200–203. All rights reserved Abstract: After a successful cardiac transplantation, routine endomyocardial biopsies showed severe infiltrates comparable with myocarditis. Polymerase chain reaction analysis of native myocardial samples revealed infection with Paracoccus yeei , and the clinical condition of the patient deteriorated. After administration of ciprofloxacin, his clinical condition improved, and further biopsies showed no infiltrates in the cardiac specimens. To our knowledge this is the first documented case of P. yeei infection in a heart transplant patient.