Malaria: direct interhuman contamination

Bourée, P.; Fouquet, E.

La Nouvelle Presse Medicale 7(21): 1865

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0301-1518
PMID: 353711
Document Number: 128690
A young child, returned from Cameroon, was admitted to hospital on 19th Sept. 1977 for intense infection with Plasmodium falciparum. On Oct. 1st a nurse who had been in charge of this child went down with a similar infection (which was cured with chloroquine). Apparently during collection of blood from the child, some blood had contaminated abrasions on her fingers.

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