Listerial meningitis and renal allografts: a life-threatening affinity.

Abstract:

:Two cases of Listeria monocytogenes infection in patients receiving immunosuppressive treatment after kidney transplantation are described. In the first, the infection, which occurred soon after transplantation and was accompanied by signs of mild chronic rejection, was the immediate cause of death. The other case occurred in a patient whose transplanted kidney had been functioning well for more than four years; this patient recovered. These cases, plus a review of 40 similar cases in the literature, point out the importance of anticipating possible listerial infection when septic meningitis arises in a patient with a transplanted kidney.

journal_name

Postgrad Med

journal_title

Postgraduate medicine

authors

Holden FA,Kaczmer JE,Kinahan CC

doi

10.1080/00325481.1980.11715622

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1980-12-01 00:00:00

pages

69-74

issue

6

eissn

0032-5481

issn

1941-9260

journal_volume

68

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