PMID: 16514913Mar 7, 2006Paper

Histoplasmosis in a renal transplant patient

Nefrología : publicación oficial de la Sociedad Española Nefrologia
J AraR Pérez

Abstract

The case of a Spanish kidney transplant patient who developed disseminated histoplasmosis approximately one year and a half after transplantation without having previously visited or travelled to endemic areas of histoplasmosis is presented. To our knowledge this is the first case of this disease in a kidney transplant patient in Spain without epidemiologic antecedent. The study of anti-histoplasm antibodies by complement fixation of the donor and recipient did not safely clarify the mechanism of contagion.

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