title: Malaysian child infected with Plasmodium vivax via blood transfusion: a case report.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. lauyeeling@um.edu.my.
authors.forename: Claudia N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Anthony
authors.forename: Yee-Ling
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Jia-Siang
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Sum
authors.forename: Mun-Yik
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Fong
authors.forename: Hany
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ariffin
authors.forename: Wai-Linn
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Zaw
authors.forename: Indra
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jeyajothi
authors.forename: Rohela
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mahmud
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008296:Malaysia; D008297:Male; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D010966:Plasmodium vivax / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan