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- Title
A Locally Acquired Falciparum Malaria via Nosocomial Transmission in Korea.
- Authors
Jung-Yeon Kim; Jeong-Su Kim; Mi-Hyun Park; Young-A Kang; Jun-Wook Kwon; Shin-Hyeong Cho; Byeong-Chul Lee; Tong-Soo Kim; Jong-Koo Lee
- Abstract
A 57-year old man who was admitted to an emergency room of a tertiary hospital with hemoptysis developed malarial fever 19 days later and then died from severe falciparum malaria 2 days later. He had not traveled outside of Korea for over 30 years. Through intensive interviews and epidemiological surveys, we found that a foreign patient with a recent history of travel to Africa was transferred to the same hospital with severe falciparum malaria. We confirmed through molecular genotyping of the MSP-1 gene that Plasmodium falciparum genotypes of the 2 patients were identical. It is suggested that a breach of standard infection control precautions resulted in this P. falciparum transmission between 2 patients in a hospital environment. This is the first report of a nosocomial transmission of falciparum malaria in Korea.
- Subjects
KOREA; AFRICA; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM falciparum; NOSOCOMIAL infections; HEMORRHAGE; OLDER men; DISEASES in older people
- Publication
Korean Journal of Parasitology, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
0023-4001
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.3347/kjp.2009.47.3.269