General Internal Medicine

Transplant Infectious Disease

Questions discussed in this category

How do you approach using fecal microbiota therapy for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection in immunocompromised patients?

Berry et al., PMID 40759389

1 Answer available

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

1 Answer available

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?

3 Answers available

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

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

1 Answer available

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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