Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. lauyeeling@um.edu.my
Malar J, 2013;12:308.
PMID: 24007496 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-308

Abstract

Malaria may be a serious complication of blood transfusion due to the asymptomatic persistence of parasites in some donors. This case report highlights the transfusion-transmitted malaria of Plasmodium vivax in a child diagnosed with germ cell tumour. This child had received blood transfusion from three donors and a week later started developing malaria like symptoms. Nested PCR and sequencing confirmed that one of the three donors was infected with P. vivax and this was transmitted to the 12-year-old child. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first reported transfusion-transmitted malaria case in Malaysia.

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