Transfusion-transmitted malaria: current donor selection guidelines are not sufficient |
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Authors: | Kitchen A Mijovic A Hewitt P |
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Affiliation: | English National Blood Service, UK. alan.kitchen@nbs.nhs.uk |
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Abstract: | A case of transfusion-transmitted malaria was identified in a 50-year-old male patient with sickle cell disease. The donor was Ghanaian, but had migrated to the UK some years previously and had not left the UK for 8 years. The donor met all of the extant donor selection guidelines [1] and a donation was consequently collected. However, on subsequent investigation of the case, the donor was found to be parasitaemic and have high titre malarial antibodies. As a result of this case, changes to the United Kingdom donor selection guidelines have been proposed. These changes will prevent any such further transmissions. |
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Keywords: | antibody testing blood donor malaria |
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