Unusual forms of malaria transmission. A report of 2 cases.
Malaria is uncommonly acquired without mosquito transmission. Two patients presenting with malaria illustrate this rare phenomenon. The first was a 1-month-old child who had received an exchange blood transfusion for severe haemolytic anaemia due to ABO blood incompatibility. The second was a doctor who had taken blood from the first patient. The occurrence of both transfusion malaria and accidental malaria from the same blood transfusion must be very uncommon.
D005078:Exchange Transfusion, Whole Blood / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008288:Malaria / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010820:Physicians; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum