@article {4286,
	title = {First case of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission by heart transplantation from donor to recipient.},
	journal = {International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM//Int J Med Microbiol},
	volume = {303},
	year = {2013},
	month = {2013},
	pages = {449 - 51},
	publisher = {Weile,Jan. Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. Electronic address: jweile@hdz-nrw.de.},
	address = {Germany},
	abstract = {We report the first documented case of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission by an orthotopic heart transplantation from the donor to the recipient. Mycobacterium tuberculosis positive blood culture showed systemic prevalence of the Mycobacteria, however, prophylactic therapy was able to prevent a clinical manifestation of tuberculosis in the recipient. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {*Antitubercular Agents/tu [Therapeutic Use], *Chemoprevention/mt [Methods], *Heart Transplantation/ae [Adverse Effects], *Mycobacterium tuberculosis/ip [Isolation \& Purification], *Tuberculosis/pc [Prevention \& Control], *Tuberculosis/tm [Transmission], Adult, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Treatment Outcome},
	isbn = {1618-0607},
	author = {Weile, Jan and Eickmeyer, Holm and Dreier, Jens and Liebke, Michael and Fuchs, Uwe and Wittke, Johann-Wolfgang and Richter, Elvira and Gummert, Jan and Knabbe, Cornelius and Schulz, Uwe}
}
