Malaria
Donor Exclusion Guidelines Do Not Eliminate Risk
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 9th, 1998
Transfusion-transmitted malaria (TTM) rarely occurs in the United States; however three cases of complicated Plasmodium falciparum infection - two of which were fatal - were reported during 1996-1998, noted M.W. Mungai, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues.
The cases prompted Mungai et al. to review all reported cases of TTM from 1963-1998. They reported their findings at the American Association of Blood Banks 51st annual meeting held in Philadelphia,...
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