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Donor-derived Plasmodium vivax infection following volunteer unrelated bone marrow transplantation

O'Donnell, J., Goldman, J.M., Wagner, K., Ehinger, G., Martin, Neil D. T., Leahy, M., Kariuki, N., Roberts, I. (1998) Donor-derived Plasmodium vivax infection following volunteer unrelated bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation, 21 (3). pp. 313-314. ISSN 0268-3369. (doi:10.1038/sj.bmt.1701073) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:17478)

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Abstract

A 14-year-old girl from the UK underwent volunteer unrelated donor bone marrow transplant (VUD BMT) for accelerated phase chronic myeloid leukaemia, On day +40 she became febrile, and peripheral blood smears demonstrated a 1% Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia, Although she had never been outside the UK, her male donor had documented Plasmodium vivax infection during a vacation in Papua New Guinea, Following appropriate treatment, he had been asymptomatic for 11 months before marrow harvesting. This is the first case report of malarial transmission by VUD BMT, and illustrates the potential problem of recrudescence of latent, dormant forms of Plasmodium vivax infection following transplantation into an immune-compromised recipient, Even after appropriate therapy, malarial infection should be included in the differential diagnosis for all post-transplant febrile episodes.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701073
Subjects: R Medicine
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: M.A. Ziai
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2011 08:16 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:31 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/17478 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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