Journal of the American Medical Association · 1941 · 14 citations · 1 references
MedicineHematologyInfectious DiseasesPediatric HematologyPediatric Infectious DiseasesTransfusion MedicineBlood CollectionBlood StorageBlood Transfusion SafetyMalariaTransfusion-transmitted InfectionsBlood Transfusion TransmissionMalaria Transmission Through TransfusionTransfusion-transmitted Parasitic Infections
In 1938 Wright<sup>1</sup>published an excellent review in which he collected 24 case reports of accidental transmission of malaria through the administration of blood. To this he added 6 cases of his own. Since 1938, 5 other cases covering this subject have been described by McCulloch,<sup>2</sup>Gardner and Dexter,<sup>3</sup>Zussman and Silver,<sup>4</sup>Nabarro and Edward<sup>5</sup>and Chamorro and Molezzun.<sup>6</sup>In all these cases the blood used for the recipient was freshly drawn from the donor and given shortly afterward either intravenously or intramuscularly. The case about to be related is probably the first ever to be reported in which malaria was acquired through the transfusion of stored blood obtained from a blood bank. As careful a search as it was possible for me to make failed to uncover any like report. <h3>REPORT OF CASE</h3> M. C., a 7 year old white boy of Irish-American
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