A boy with nosocomial malaria tropica contracted in a Dutch hospital.
A 12-year-old Dutch boy was admitted because of severe neurotrauma after a traffic accident. On day 33 after admission, a Plasmodium falciparum infection was found in a routine blood smear. Most probably he was infected by blood of a patient next to him, a girl with severe malaria tropica. The genotype of the P. falciparum in both patients was identical.
Winterberg
Dirk H
DH
Emma Children's Hospital AMC, (room H8-240)/University of Amsterdam, P.O.Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands. d.h.winterberg@amc.uva.nl
Wever
Peter C
PC
van Rheenen-Verberg
Cora
C
Kempers
Oscarina
O
Durand
Rémy
R
Bos
Albert P
AP
Teeuw
Arianne H
AH
Spanjaard
Lodewijk
L
Dankert
Jacob
J
D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D016778:Malaria, Falciparum / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010963:Plasmodium falciparum / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*