Author/year

Number of patients

Infection rate (%)

Site of infections

Bolman [4] /1984

14

14

Pneumonia

Mitruka [6] /1997

64 patients with solid organ transplants (40 were kidney transplants)

19

1) pneumnia

2) sepsis

3) mediastinitis

4) Leg wound

5) UTI

6) C.Diff

Ono [8] /2002

60 ASOT patients

(46 kidney transplant)

5

1) Pneumonia

2) sepsis

3) mediastinitis

Reddy [9] /2002

26

3.8

Leg wound

Massad [11] /2005

32

12

Leg wound infection

Moazami [12] /2006

26

8.5

1) pneumonia

2) sepsis

3) sternal wound

Zhang [13] /2006

57

17.5

1) UTI

2) Pneumonia

3) Sepsis

4) mediastinitis

Deb [14] /2006

47 patients ASOT (kidney transplant was 34)

6.4

1) pneumonia

2) Leg wound infection

John [15] /2007

70 ASOT patients (kidney transplant 58)

2.9

1) sepsis

2) leg wound

3) pneumonia

Musci [16] /2007

39 heart and kidney transplant patients (kidney transplant 16)

12.5

1) sepsis

Rahmanian [17] /2009

29

6.9

1) sepsis

Shayan [19] /2011

43

21

Not specified

Sharma R [20] /2012

36 kidney and liver transplants (30 were kidney transplants)

16.6

1) Leg wound

2) endocarditis

3) sepsis

Lenihan [21] /2013

1594 (compared to 678 PCI patients)

8.6

Not specified

Rocha [22] /2014

92

3.3

Wound infection (sternum and leg)

Vargo [23] /2015

3535 ASOT patients (2712 were kidney transplant patients)

6.2

1) pneumonia: 6.2%

2) wound infection: 1.3%

Basic-Jukic [24] /2015

13

15.4

1) pneumonia

Tooley [25] /2016

2146

2.5

1) pneumonia: 2.5%

2) sepsis: 1.3%

3) SSI: 1.3%

Farag [26] /2017

70 ASOT patients (49 were kidney transplants)

25.7

1) Sepsis: 10%

2) Pneumonia: 7.1%

3) SSI: 5.7%

Kohmoto [27] /2018

115 patients with kidney, liver, kidney-pancreas transplants.

(82 were kidney transplants)

5

1) pneumonia: 5%

2) SSI: 1%

Bozso [28] /2019

20 patients with kidney, liver, lung or bone-marrow.

Kidney transplants were 14 patients.

1

1) sepsis

Komagamine [29] /2020

23

4.3

Pneumonia

No SSI

Mace [30] /2020

179

12

1) pneumonia: 12%

2) SSI : 1%

Bianco [31] /2020

129 patients with solid organ transplants.

Kidney transplant patients were 84 patients.

6

1) Pneumonia: 6%

2) sepsis: 2%

No SSI

Fabio [32] /2021

129 patients with solid organ transplants (97 patients were kidney transplants)

18

1) pneumonia

2) mediastinitis /wound

Fazmin [33] /2021

38

21

Pneumonia: 18%

Other infection: 21%

No SSI