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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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Chest radiographs from an organ donor with murine typhus, from a study describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. A) Chest radiograph obtained at hospital admission, 5 days after symptom onset, with no specific abnormalities noted. B) Chest radiograph obtained on hospital day 3, revealing extensive alveolar opacities predominantly in the middle and lower lung fields.

Figure 2. Chest radiographs from an organ donor with murine typhus, from a study describing the transmission of Rickettsia typhi from an organ donor to 2 kidney transplant recipients, Texas, 2024. A) Chest radiograph obtained at hospital admission, 5 days after symptom onset, with no specific abnormalities noted. B) Chest radiograph obtained on hospital day 3, revealing extensive alveolar opacities predominantly in the middle and lower lung fields.

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