Susceptible patients without CMV infection can be infected by receiving infected organs and blood products unless care is taken.

Scott Bottenfield, an official of LifeNet, said he did not know why his organization had not been notified of the deaths of the infected organ recipients earlier.

When mice were given chronic infectious diseases of the liver, kidney and pancreas and then inoculated with prions, the prions made their way to the infected organs.

Britain appears to be taking the first steps to dispose of the infected organs of the animals that theoretically could carry the disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Histoplasmosis can be diagnosed by samples containing the fungus taken from sputum (via Bronchoalveolar lavage), blood, or infected organs.

Exotic ungulate encephalopathy is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), or prion disease, identified in infected organs of zoo animals.

Infection with these viruses produces a characteristic presence of enlarged basophilic cells within infected organs.

The doctor and nurse lay the lifeless bag of infected organs back onto the cot.

This is usually related to an infected organ such as the appendix or colon.