Post-transplant liver graft schistosomiasis in a migrant from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Paola CarraiLorenzo ZammarchiLuca Emanuele PollinaLuca GiordaniValentina ManganoRiccardo IapoceFrancesca RinaldiAlessandro BartoloniFranco FilipponiPaolo De SimoneFabrizio BruschiPublished in: Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society (2018)
We report a case of post-transplant liver graft infection with Schistosoma spp in a migrant from sub-Saharan Africa transplanted for HBV-related cirrhosis and with undiagnosed schistosomiasis pre-transplantation. The occurrence of tropical diseases in non-endemic areas warrants screening protocols for organ donors and recipients with a history of exposure in endemic areas.