General Internal Medicine

Transplant Infectious Disease

Questions discussed in this category

How would you manage persistent Norovirus diarrheal infections in a kidney transplant patient that are not responding to a decrease in the patient’s maintenance immunosuppressive regimen?

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Do you treat non-albicans strains of Candida on sputum culture or BAL in patients who are immunosuppressed?

2 Answers available

Would you transition from IV to oral antibiotics in a solid organ transplant recipient with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia?

Nussbaum et al., PMID 38195100

1 Answer available

Is there a role for nitazoxanide for treatment of norovirus gastroenteritis in immunocompromised patients?

1 Answer available

Under which circumstances is there a role for reduction in immunosuppression post-SOT in a patient with recurrent CMV viremia and/or disease?

1 Answer available

How long do you treat uncomplicated gram-negative rod bacteremia in solid organ transplant recipients?

1 Answer available

What is current best practice with regards to antibacterial prophylaxis in patients with hematologic malignancy and resolved neutropenic fever (>72 hours)?

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Papers discussed in this category

Curr Opin Infect Dis, 2023 Aug 1

Neutropenia and antibiotics: when, what, how and why?

The Journal of infection, 2011-11

Norovirus gastroenteritis successfully treated with nitazoxanide.

Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 2006 Nov 15

Nitazoxanide in the treatment of viral gastroenteritis: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Journal of tropical medicine, 2017 Feb 26

Nitazoxanide in Acute Rotavirus Diarrhea: A Randomized Control Trial from a Developing Country.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2024 Jul 19

Oral Antibiotics for Treatment of Gram-Negative Bacteremia in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Propensity Score Weighted Retrospective Observational Study.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020 Nov 05

Orally Administered Human Immunoglobulin Therapy for Norovirus Enteritis in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Case Series at a Single Academic Transplant Center.

Clinical transplantation, 2022 Jan 20

Nitazoxanide treatment for norovirus infection in solid organ transplant recipients.

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