TY - JOUR AU - Amman, Brian R. AU - Pavlin, Boris I. AU - AlbariƱo, Cesar G. AU - Comer, James A. AU - Erickson, Bobbie R. AU - Oliver, Jennifer B. AU - Sealy, Tara K. AU - Vincent, Martin J. AU - Nichol, Stuart T. AU - Paddock, Christopher D. AU - Tumpey, Abbigail J. AU - Wagoner, Kent D. AU - Glauer, R. David AU - Smith, Kathleen A. AU - Winpisinger, Kim A. AU - Parsely, Melody S. AU - Wyrick, Phil AU - Hannafin, Christopher H. AU - Bandy, Utpala AU - Zaki, Sherif AU - Rollin, Pierre E. AU - Ksiazek, Thomas G. T1 - Pet Rodents and Fatal Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis in Transplant Patients T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 719 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In April 2005, 4 transplant recipients became ill after receiving organs infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV); 3 subsequently died. All organs came from a donor who had been exposed to a hamster infected with LCMV. The hamster was traced back through a Rhode Island pet store to a distribution center in Ohio, and more LCMV-infected hamsters were discovered in both. Rodents from the Ohio facility and its parent facility in Arkansas were tested for the same LCMV strain as the 1 involved in the transplant-associated deaths. Phylogenetic analysis of virus sequences linked the rodents from the Ohio facility to the Rhode Island pet store, the index hamster, and the transplant recipients. This report details the animal traceback and the supporting laboratory investigations. KW - LCMV KW - hamster KW - outbreak KW - transmission by organ transplantation KW - zoonoses KW - Mesocricetus auratus KW - research KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1305.061269 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/5/06-1269_article ER - End of Reference