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JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 1092-1095Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piab083
Keywords
blood donor; P. falciparum; P. ovale; plasmodium
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- Horchow Family Fund Scholarship in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center [5300375400]
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Transfusion-transmitted malaria (TTM) is rare but potentially fatal in non-endemic settings, and should be considered in children, especially sickle cell patients, with fever following multiple transfusions. Supply donor screening using questionnaires may have errors.
In non-endemic settings, transfusion-transmitted malaria (TTM) is rare but potentially fatal and becoming more common with globalization. We present two pediatric cases that demonstrate donor screening using questionnaires is subject to error and that TTM should be considered with fever following numerous transfusions in children, particularly sickle cell patients.
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