Haemophilus parainfluenzae liver abscess after successful liver transplantation

J Clin Microbiol. 1998 Mar;36(3):818-9. doi: 10.1128/JCM.36.3.818-819.1998.

Abstract

Haemophilus parainfluenzae was isolated from a bile specimen and from an aspirate of a liver abscess in a 58-year-old liver-transplanted woman that was indicative of an invasion of the graft by an ascending route. Drug therapy, immunosuppression, rejection therapy, and Roux-en-Y choledochojejunostomy may have contributed to the septic course. Interdisciplinary cooperation was instrumental in diagnosis and successful management in this case.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bile / microbiology
  • Female
  • Haemophilus / isolation & purification*
  • Haemophilus Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Liver / microbiology*
  • Liver Abscess / microbiology*
  • Liver Transplantation*
  • Middle Aged
  • Transplants / microbiology*