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UNITED STATESThey find themselves infested from verse after a kidney transplant
Two Americans received organs infected with a parasite. The two kidneys belonged to the same Caribbean donor.
A “Stercoralist Strongyloids” in the larval state.
CDCTwo kidneys infected with a parasite were grafted to American patients who ended up with the infested body of verse, according to the LiveScience site, citing a case reported by the “New England Journal of Medicine”. The contaminated organs belonged to the same donor, residing in the Caribbean before his death.
The two men, aged 61 and 66 respectively, had been grafted in two different hospitals from the East Coast, one Boston (Massachusetts) and the other in Albany (New York State). It was the doctors of the first patient who discovered the infestation, after their patient saw his condition deteriorate to the point of ending up in intensive care, the lungs filled with liquid and the skin studded with purple marks.
After having excluded the possibility of a bacterial infection or the COVVI -19 virus, the Massachusetts General Hospital team continued its investigations which concluded in an infestation in the “Strongyloides stercoralis” – or Anguillule – a tiny tiny parasitic worm. This nematode had invaded the abdomen, the lungs and the skin of the 61 -year -old patient who had to be treated with ivermectin, a powerful deworm.
Infections that remain rare
National research on other patients transplanted from the same donor made it possible to find a second case of angelule infection in a second sixty -year -old at the Albany Medical Center who had received the other kidney from the deceased Caribbean. He too could be treated.
According to a report by the American Journal of Transplantation dating from 2021, the infections caused by transplants are rare in the United States: over ten years, some fourteen cases per 10,000 transplants have been listed. Among these cases, almost half are due to the eel.
