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KMID : 0425120090470030269
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2009 Volume.47 No. 3 p.269 ~ p.273
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A Locally Acquired Falciparum Malaria via Nosocomial Transmission in Korea
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Kim Jung-Yeon
Kim Jeong-Su
Park Mi-Hyun
Kang Young-A
Kwon Jun-Wook
Cho Shin-Hyeong
Lee Byeong-Chul
Kim Tong-Soo
Lee Jong-Koo
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Abstract
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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.
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KEYWORD
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Plasmodium falciparum, malaria, nosocomial transmission
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