"Important Bacterial and Parasitic Infections in SOT Recipients"

This lecture will provide a review of bacterial and parasitic infections in a transplant patient and how they are managed.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Metronidazole is no longer recommended as a first-line therapy for C. difficile infection and has been removed from updated guidelines. In clinical trials, metronidazole has been shown to be inferior to oral vancomycin for clinical cure and recurrence. Please see the following article for more information: "Management of Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) in solid organ transplant recipients: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Community of Practice" (Clin Transplant. 2019 Sep;33(9):e13564. doi: 10.1111/ctr.13564. Epub 2019 Jun 20.)

Use the markers on the video timeline to quickly navigate to important points in the video outlined below:

Chapter 1: Important Bacterial Infections in SOT Recipients [00:37]

- Section A) Timeline of Infections [01:11]

- Section B) Trends in Antimicrobial Resistance [03:51]

- Section C) Common Bacterial Infections [05:51]

- Part 1) Pneumonia [05:59]

- Part 2) Urinary Tract Infections [09:22]

- Part 3) Surgical Site Infections [14:07]

- Part 4) C. difficile Colitis [16:21]

Chapter 2: Important Parasitic Infections in SOT Recipients[19:38]

- Section A) Toxoplasmosis [20:11]

- Section B) Chagas Disease [22:35]

- Section C) Strongyloidiasis [24:34]

Brian Schwartz MD