Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Invasive Non-Aspergillus Mold Infections in Transplant Recipients, United States, 2001–2006
Table 1
Organism | No. (%) patients | ||
---|---|---|---|
HCT | SOT | Total | |
Mucorales | 77 (62.1) | 28 (62.2) | 105 (62.1) |
Rhizopus spp. | 39 (50.6) | 16 (57.1) | 55 (52.4) |
Mucor spp. | 12 (15.6) | 7 (25.0) | 19 (18.1) |
Rhizomucor spp. | 7 (9.1) | 0 | 7 (6.7) |
Cunninghamella spp. | 5 (6.5) | 4 (14.3) | 9 (8.6) |
Lichtheimia spp.† | 3 (3.9) | 0 | 3 (2.9) |
Apophysomyces spp. | 1 (1.3) | 0 | 1 (1.0) |
Syncephalastrum spp. | 1 (1.3) | 0 | 1 (1.0) |
Unspecified | 9 (11.7) | 1 (3.6) | 10 (9.5) |
Genus Fusarium | 31 (25.0) | 6 (13.3) | 37 (21.9) |
F. solani | 9 (29.0) | 1 (16.7) | 10 (27.0) |
F. oxysporum | 0 | 2 (33.3) | 2 (5.4) |
F. proliferatum | 2 (6.5) | 0 | 2 (5.4) |
F. verticilloides | 1 (3.2) | 0 | 1 (2.7) |
Unspecified | 19 (61.3) | 3 (50.0) | 22 (59.5) |
Genus Scedosporium | 16 (12.9) | 11 (24.4) | 27 (16.0) |
S. apiospermum | 13 (81.3) | 6 (54.5) | 19 (70.4) |
S. prolificans | 3 (18.8) | 5 (45.5) | 8 (29.6) |
Total | 124 (73.4) | 45 (26.6) | 169 (100)
*HCT, hematopoietic cell transplant; SOT, solid organ transplant; TRANSNET, Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network. |
*HCT, hematopoietic cell transplant; SOT, solid organ transplant; TRANSNET, Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network.
†This genus was formerly Absidia.
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