ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2019
Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 29 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Transfusion-transmittedThe Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2025Review
- Genomic investigation of a non-travel Plasmodium falciparum case linked to imported malaria in China's post-elimination era.Malaria journal · 2025Article
- Malaria.The New England journal of medicine · 2025Review
- The Issue of Screening for Transfusion-Transmitted Infections in Sub-Saharan Africa Presents Several Challenges: A Review.Advances in hematology · 2025Review
- Biopreserving Pathogens: Promise & Peril.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2024Article
- Antimalarial Effects of Nano Chloroquine Loaded Curcumin In vivo.Infectious disorders drug targets · 2024Article
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- Criminal and Civil Responsibility of the Donor in a Case of Transmission of Malaria by a Blood Transfusion in a Nonendemic Country.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2022Article
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- Antiplasmodial Effect of Nano Dendrimer G2 Loaded with Chloroquine in Mice Infected with Plasmodium berghei.Acta parasitologica · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the Sysmex XN-31 automated analyser for blood donor malaria screening at Malawi Blood Transfusion Services.Vox sanguinis · 2022Observational
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12 authors at 9 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundMalaria transmission through blood transfusion is an accidental but preventable cause of malaria infection and is increasingly becoming a matter of concern for blood transfusion services. This systematic review was conducted to provide a summary of evidence about the prevalence of
methodsPRISMA guidelines were followed. Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, and EMBASE were searched from 1982 to October 10, 2017. All peer-reviewed original research articles describing the prevalence of malaria parasitemia in blood donors with different diagnostic methods were included. The random-effects model was applied to assess the effects of heterogeneity among the selected studies. Incoherence and heterogeneity between studies were quantified by
resultsSeventy-one studies from 21 countries, 5 continents, were included in the present systematic review. The median prevalence of malaria parasitemia among 984 975 asymptomatic healthy blood donors was 10.54%, 5.36%, and 0.38% by microscopy, molecular methods (polymerase chain reaction), and rapid diagnostic tests, respectively. The most commonly detected
conclusionsThis systematic review demonstrates that compared with other transfusion-linked infections, that is, HIV, HCV, and HBV, transfusion-transmitted malaria is one of the most significant transfusion-associated infections especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Future work must aim to understand the clinical significance of transfusion-transmitted malaria in malaria-endemic settings.
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