Aging and Infections in Solid Organ Transplantation: Unchartered Territory

Maheen Z Abidi¹, Sara Belga², Ajit Limaye³, Mara A McAdams-DeMarco^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.

Editorial

Maheen Z Abidi et al. Transpl Infect Dis. 2025 Jan-Feb.

. 2025 Jan-Feb;27(1):e14431.

doi: 10.1111/tid.14431. Epub 2024 Dec 28.

Maheen Z Abidi¹, Sara Belga², Ajit Limaye³, Mara A McAdams-DeMarco^{4

5}

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Langone Health, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: CMV; aging; immune senescence; infection; organ transplant.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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