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Mark D. Garfield, MD; William B. Ershler, MD; Dennis G. Maki, MD

JAMA. 1978;240(21):2285-2286.

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MALARIA is a well-recognized complication of transfusion therapy that is being encountered with increasing frequency in nonmalarious areas of the world.¹ Most cases have derived from administration of infected whole blood or packed RBCs,^1-3 but reports have also implicated leukocyte concentrates⁴ and even fresh plasma.^5-7 Platelet concentrates have been ascribed as the source of one case of transfusion malaria⁸; however, neither confirmatory data nor clinical details were provided. We report a well-documented case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmitted by platelet concentrate transfusion.

Report of a Case

A 57-year-old woman with acute myelomonocytic leukemia was readmitted to the hospital on June 27, 1977, in leukemic relapse. Between December 1976 and June 1977, she had received no blood products and she had never traveled outside the United States. Physical findings were unremarkable except for pallor, and she was afebrile. The hematocrit level was 32%; the WBC count, 7,100/cu . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine (Drs Garfield, Ershler, and Maki) and the Infection Control Unit (Dr Maki), University Hospitals, Center for Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 484 Medical Sciences Bldg, University Hospitals, Madison, WI 53706 (Dr Maki).

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