Malaria in an asylum seeker paediatric liver transplant recipient: diagnostic challenges for migrant population
Autor: | Gabriella d'Ettorre, Lucia Fontanelli Sulekova, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Valentina Mazzocato, Maurizio De Angelis, Silvia Angeletti, Franco Ruberto, Francesco Pugliese, Simonetta Mattiucci, Ornella Spagnolello, Luigi Celani, Maurizio Lopalco, Simona Gabrielli, Francesco Alessandri, Riccardo Bazzardi, Massimo Ciccozzi, Serena Vita |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Plasmodium falciparum malaria Artesunate Liver transplantation Microbiology Organ transplantation Antimalarials Virology asylum seeker liver transplantation posttransplant infections recipient medicine Humans Malaria Falciparum Migrant population Intensive care medicine Transients and Migrants Lumefantrine business.industry Immunosuppression General Medicine medicine.disease Transplant Recipients Liver Transplantation Liver transplant recipient Transplant tourism Treatment Outcome Infectious Diseases Child Preschool Parasitology Artemether Asylum seeker business Malaria |
Zdroj: | The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 15:172-178 |
ISSN: | 1972-2680 |
Popis: | Transplanted patients are particularly exposed to a major risk of infectious diseases due to prolonged immunosuppressive treatment. Over the last decade, the growing migration flows and the transplant tourism have led to increasing infections caused by geographically restricted organisms. Malaria is an unusual event in organ transplant recipients than can be acquired primarily or reactivation following immunosuppression, by transfusion of blood products or through the transplanted organ. We report a rare case of Plasmodium falciparum infection in a liver transplanted two years-old African boy who presented to one Italian Asylum Seeker Center on May 2019. We outlined hereby diagnostic challenges, possible aetiologies of post-transplantation malaria and finally we summarized potential drug interactions between immunosuppressive agents and antimalarials. This report aims to increase the attention to newly arrived migrants, carefully evaluating patients coming from tropical areas and taking into consideration also rare tropical infections not endemic in final destination countries. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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