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Unexpected detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA in asymptomatic blood donors: fact or artifact?

2014; BioMed Central; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1475-2875-13-336

ISSN

1475-2875

Autores

Alfredo Mendrone, Crispim Cerutti, José Eduardo Levi, Marcos Boulos, Maria Carmen Arroyo Sanchez, Rosely dos Santos Malafronte, Sílvia Maria Di Santi, Vicente Odone Filho,

Tópico(s)

Blood donation and transfusion practices

Resumo

A study searching for Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA among blood donors from the non-endemic area in Brazil reported a rate of 7.41%. This number is at least three times higher than what has been observed in blood donors from the Amazon, an endemic area concentrating >99% of all malaria cases in Brazil. Moreover, the majority of the donors were supposedly infected by P. falciparum, a rare finding both in men and anophelines from the Atlantic forest. These findings shall be taken with caution since they disagree with several publications in the literature and possibly overestimate the actual risk of malaria transmission by blood transfusion in São Paulo city.

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