ArticleMalaria journal2014
Unexpected detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA in asymptomatic blood donors: fact or artifact?
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- Alternative transmission routes in the malaria elimination era: an overview of transfusion-transmitted malaria in the Americas.Malaria journal · 2017Pooled it
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- Strategy to improve malaria surveillance system preventing transfusion-transmitted malaria in blood banks using molecular diagnostic.Malaria journal · 2018Article
- Reassessment of asymptomatic carriers of Plasmodium spp. in an endemic area with a very low incidence of malaria in extra-Amazonian Brazil.Malaria journal · 2017Article
- Plasmodium falciparum in the southeastern Atlantic forest: a challenge to the bromeliad-malaria paradigm?Malaria journal · 2015Article
- Finding connections in the unexpected detection of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum DNA in asymptomatic blood donors: a fact in the Atlantic Forest.Malaria journal · 2014Article
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Abstract
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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