Disseminated Adenovirus Infection in Heart and Kidney Transplant

New human adenovirus (candidate adenovirus type 35) causing fatal disseminated infection in a renal transplant recipient.

An antigenically distinct adenovirus is described which was isolated in March 1973 from the lungs and kidney of a 61-year-old woman who died of diffuse interstitial adenovirus pneumonia 55 days after receiving a cadaveric renal allograft. Complement fixation, hemagglutination inhibition, and serum neutralization tests on sequential serum specimens from the patient confirmed that the adenovirus ...

Life-threatening adenovirus infection in a kidney transplant recipient

Adenovirus causes 5–10% of all childhood febrile illnesses [1]. In the immunocompetent host, infection is usually associated with mild, self-limiting upper respiratory tract syndromes. Most individuals have serologic evidence of prior adenoviral infection by age 10 [1]. Following initial infection, adenovirus establishes lifelong latent infection in lympho-epithelial tissues [2]. In immunocompr...

Covid-19 infection in kidney transplant recipients: a case report

Disseminated Adenovirus Nephritis After Kidney Transplantation

Timothy Hatlen, Henry Mroch, Katherine Tuttle, Okechukwu Ojogho, Michele Rooney, Sara Desmond and Samer Bani-Hani Department of Medicine, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, Washington, USA; Department of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA; Department of Nephrology, Providence Kidney Care Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA; Institute of Transl...

Case report: a fatal case of disseminated adenovirus infection in a non-transplant adult haematology patient

BACKGROUND We report a fatal case of disseminated adenovirus infection in a non-transplant haematology adult patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia who had completed combination chemoimmunotherapy a few months before developing respiratory symptoms. In such non-transplant patients, monitoring for adenovirus in the blood is not routine. However, with adenoviruses, when there is a more periph...