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Management of infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria in solid organ transplant recipients—Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice

Sarah Longworth, Jennifer S. Daly, the AST Infectious Diseases Community of Practice

Clinical Transplantation · 2019

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Summary

These updated guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice review the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention, and management of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in the pre- and post-transplant period. NTM commonly cause one of five different clinical syndromes: pleuropulmonary disease, skin and soft tissue infection, osteoarticular infection, disseminated disease, including that caused by catheter-associated infection, and lymphadenitis. Diagnosis of these infections can be challenging, particularly when they are isolated from nonsterile spaces, owing to their ubiquity in nature. Consequently, diagnosis of pulmonary infections with these pathogens requires fulfillment of microbiologic, radiographic, and clinical criteria to address t

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1111/ctr.13588
Catalogue ID
SNmoh9mtei-jfy5kg
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