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Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025

Synopsis

Organ Donor Transmission of Rickettsia typhi to Kidney Transplant Recipients, Texas, USA, 2024

Jeffrey C. Jones, Omar G. García, Julian A. Villalba, Rosa Hinojosa, Marissa L. Taylor, Pallavi Annambhotla, Matthias H. Kapturczak, Bonny Mayes, Sandor E. Karpathy, Arlyn N. Gleaton, Linda Moon, Joseph Singleton, Sridhar V. Basavaraju, and Christopher D. PaddockComments to Author 
Author affiliation: San Antonio Infectious Diseases Consultants, San Antonio, Texas, USA (J.C. Jones); City of Laredo Public Health Department, Laredo, Texas, USA (O.G. García); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.A. Villalba, M.L. Taylor, P. Annambhotla, S.E. Karpathy, A.N. Gleaton, L. Moon, J. Singleton, S.V. Basavaraju, C.D. Paddock); Corpus Christi Nueces County Public Health District, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA (R. Hinojosa); Methodist Transplant Institute, San Antonio (M.H. Kapturczak); Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, Texas, USA (B. Mayes).

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Figure 1

Timeline describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. Day 1 of donor hospitalization is represented as −5, the day of death as −1, and the day of transplantation as 0, after which posttransplant days are listed, ending with the discharge of recipient 1 from the hospital on posttransplant day 20. CT, computed tomography; ICU, intensive care unit; Karius, https://kariusdx.com.

Figure 1. Timeline describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. Day 1 of donor hospitalization is represented as −5, the day of death as −1, and the day of transplantation as 0, after which posttransplant days are listed, ending with the discharge of recipient 1 from the hospital on posttransplant day 20. CT, computed tomography; ICU, intensive care unit; Karius, https://kariusdx.com.

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