Epidemiological and clinical study of microsporidiosis in French kidney transplant recipients from 2005 to 2019: TRANS-SPORE registry.
Clément DumondFlorence AulagnonIsabelle EtienneAnne-Elisabeth HengMarie-Elisabeth BougnouxLoic FavennecNassim KamarXavier IriartBruno PereiraMathias BüchlerGuillaume DesoubeauxHannah KaminskiFlorian Lussac-SortonGilles GargalaDany AnglicheauPhilippe PoirierAnne ScemlaCyril Garroustenull nullPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2021)
E. bieneusi is an underestimated opportunistic pathogen in RT recipients, and infection with E. bieneusi leads to diarrhea with important dehydration and acute renal injury. The treatment is based on the reduction of the immunosuppressive regimen and the administration of fumagillin if available.