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Study Cites Risks of Malaria Transmission in Transfused Blood

Published in Blood Weekly, May 15th, 1995

Malaria can be transmitted by the transfusion of any blood compound containing red blood cells, although transfusion malaria is rarely a complication in nonendemic areas.

This may pose an especially grave problem in nonmalarious areas, because of delay in diagnosis, transfusion malaria has a relatively high fatality rate. "It can be particularly serious in pregnant women and in splenectomized or immunocompromised patients," wrote Fahed A. Mohareb, FACP.

In his article, "Transfusion Malaria," (Annals of Saudi Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1995, pp. 77-79), Mohareb reviewed the experiences of researchers at the King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh,...

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