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. 2023 Sep 1;107(9):1910-1934.
doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000004521. Epub 2023 Aug 21.

South Asian Transplant Infectious Disease Guidelines for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates, Recipients, and Donors

Shyam Bihari Bansal  1 , Venktasubramnian Ramasubramanian  2 , Narayan Prasad  3 , Neeraj Saraf  4 , Rajeev Soman  5 , Govind Makharia  6 , Santosh Varughese  7 , Manisha Sahay  8 , Vikas Deswal  9 , Tarun Jeloka  5 , Sishir Gang  10 , Ashish Sharma  11 , Priscilla Rupali  12 , Dibya Singh Shah  13 , Vivekanand Jha  14 , Camille Nelson Kotton  15
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South Asian Transplant Infectious Disease Guidelines for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates, Recipients, and Donors

Shyam Bihari Bansal et al. Transplantation. .

Abstract

These guidelines discuss the epidemiology, screening, diagnosis, posttransplant prophylaxis, monitoring, and management of endemic infections in solid organ transplant (SOT) candidates, recipients, and donors in South Asia. The guidelines also provide recommendations for SOT recipients traveling to this region. These guidelines are based on literature review and expert opinion by transplant physicians, surgeons, and infectious diseases specialists, mostly from South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) as well as transplant experts from other countries. These guidelines cover relevant endemic bacterial infections (tuberculosis, leptospirosis, melioidosis, typhoid, scrub typhus), viral infections (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E; rabies; and the arboviruses including dengue, chikungunya, Zika, Japanese encephalitis), endemic fungal infections (mucormycosis, histoplasmosis, talaromycosis, sporotrichosis), and endemic parasitic infections (malaria, leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporidiosis, strongyloidiasis, and filariasis) as well as travelers' diarrhea and vaccination for SOT candidates and recipients including travelers visiting this region. These guidelines are intended to be an overview of each topic; more detailed reviews are being published as a special supplement in the Indian Journal of Transplantation .

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no funding or conflicts of interest.

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