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. 2025 Sep 18:e70107.
doi: 10.1111/tid.70107. Online ahead of print.

Transmission of Ehrlichia chaffeensis From an Organ Donor to a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient

Praveen Gundelly  1   2 , Eric Ransom  1   2 , Zoe Stewart  1   2 , Brianna Ruch  1   2 , Arksarapuk Jittirat  1   2 , Lynn Denny  3 , Jennifer Kasten  4 , Marissa L Taylor  5 , Johanna S Salzer  5 , Sridhar V Basavaraju  6 , Pallavi Annambhotla  6 , David W McCormick  6 , Arlyn N Gleaton  5 , Sandor E Karpathy  5 , Joseph Singleton  5 , Carmen Ramos  5 , Christopher D Paddock  5 , Laura K Rothfeldt  7 , Molly Baker  8 , Julian A Villalba  4
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Transmission of Ehrlichia chaffeensis From an Organ Donor to a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient

Praveen Gundelly et al. Transpl Infect Dis. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Ehrlichia chaffeensis; donor‐derived infection; ehrlichiosis; immunocompromised patient; microbial cell‐free DNA metagenomic sequencing; transplant.

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