Most of the Colombian territory is endemic for malaria. Autochthonous cases with low parasitemia occur in the Pacific coast and in large zones of Antioquia and Córdoba. According to the Colombian legislation no malaria screening test is mandatory for blood donors from non-endemic areas. However, if they have traveled to malaria transmission regions they are deferred for six months before they can donate.This report describes a transfusion-transmitted malaria case in Cali (Valle del Cauca, Colombia), where a preterm newborn received infected blood from a donor that lived in the same city, but he had traveled to the rural area of the municipality of Dagua (Valle del Cauca, Colombia) 9 months before the donation.Thick blood smears confirmed Pl...
Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii infection manifests differently in humans according to their immunit...
Introduction. The rapid and effective diagnosis of malaria is the determining condition for an appro...
La infección por Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) puede ser transmitida por transfusión sanguínea, por l...
Most of the Colombian territory is endemic for malaria. Autochthonous cases with low parasitemia occ...
The IgG type antimalaric antibodies prevalence was determined by immunofluorescence assay (IFA) in 3...
Malaria transmission cases through transfusions have been described worldwide. In Honduras, two case...
The number of cases of Plasmodium malariae in Colombia shows a percent distribution concentrated in ...
Introduction. In Colombia, blood units for transfusions are in short supply. In Cali, a city in cent...
Malaria in Brazil is endemic in the Amazon region, but autochthonous cases with low parasitaemia occ...
In order to determine the risk of transfusion-induced malaria in the Blood Bank of the Hospital Mili...
Introducción: La malaria es una enfermedad infecciosa vectorial de predominio en regiones tropicales...
Introduction. Chagas disease is a public health problem in Latin America. Whereas the primary source...
Introducción: La malaria es la enfermedad parasitaria de mayor morbimortalidad en Latinoamérica, esp...
As infectious diseases are the major cause of morbidity in Colombia, the objective of this study was...
La malaria es una de las patologías infecciosas más importantes y constituye un evento cuya vigilanc...
Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii infection manifests differently in humans according to their immunit...
Introduction. The rapid and effective diagnosis of malaria is the determining condition for an appro...
La infección por Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) puede ser transmitida por transfusión sanguínea, por l...
Most of the Colombian territory is endemic for malaria. Autochthonous cases with low parasitemia occ...
The IgG type antimalaric antibodies prevalence was determined by immunofluorescence assay (IFA) in 3...
Malaria transmission cases through transfusions have been described worldwide. In Honduras, two case...
The number of cases of Plasmodium malariae in Colombia shows a percent distribution concentrated in ...
Introduction. In Colombia, blood units for transfusions are in short supply. In Cali, a city in cent...
Malaria in Brazil is endemic in the Amazon region, but autochthonous cases with low parasitaemia occ...
In order to determine the risk of transfusion-induced malaria in the Blood Bank of the Hospital Mili...
Introducción: La malaria es una enfermedad infecciosa vectorial de predominio en regiones tropicales...
Introduction. Chagas disease is a public health problem in Latin America. Whereas the primary source...
Introducción: La malaria es la enfermedad parasitaria de mayor morbimortalidad en Latinoamérica, esp...
As infectious diseases are the major cause of morbidity in Colombia, the objective of this study was...
La malaria es una de las patologías infecciosas más importantes y constituye un evento cuya vigilanc...
Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii infection manifests differently in humans according to their immunit...
Introduction. The rapid and effective diagnosis of malaria is the determining condition for an appro...
La infección por Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) puede ser transmitida por transfusión sanguínea, por l...