title: A boy with nosocomial malaria tropica contracted in a Dutch hospital.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Dirk H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Winterberg
authors.forename: Peter C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Wever
authors.forename: Cora
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van Rheenen-Verberg
authors.forename: Oscarina
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kempers
authors.forename: Rémy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Durand
authors.forename: Albert P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Bos
authors.forename: Arianne H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Teeuw
authors.forename: Lodewijk
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Spanjaard
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dankert
mesh_terms: 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*