Li, Jonathan and Lau, Cindy and Anderson, Naomi and Burrows, Fay and Mirdad, Feras and Carlos, Lilibeth and Pitman, Andrew J. and Muthiah, Kavitha and Darley, David R. and Andresen, David and Macdonald, Peter and Marriott, Deborah and Dharan, Nila J. (2022) Multispecies Outbreak of Nocardia Infections in Heart Transplant Recipients and Association with Climate Conditions, Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 28 (11). pp.2155-2164. ISSN 1080-6040
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A multispecies outbreak of Nocardia occurred among heart transplant recipients (HTR), but not lung transplant recipients (LTR), in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, during 2018–2019. We performed a retrospective review of 23 HTR and LTR who had Nocardia spp. infections during June 2015–March 2021, compared risk factors for Nocardia infection, and evaluated climate conditions before, during, and after the period of the 2018–2019 outbreak. Compared with LTR, HTR had a shorter median time from transplant to Nocardia diagnosis, higher prevalence of diabetes, greater use of induction immunosuppression with basiliximab, and increased rates of cellular rejection before Nocardia diagnosis. During the outbreak, Sydney experienced the lowest monthly precipitation and driest surface levels compared with time periods directly before and after the outbreak. Increased immunosuppression of HTR compared with LTR, coupled with extreme weather conditions during 2018–2019, may explain this outbreak of Nocardia infections in HTR. © 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Repository Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2023 01:41 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2023 01:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.victorchang.edu.au/id/eprint/1312 |
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