Nosocomial Malaria and Saline Flush

Abstract

An investigation of malaria in a US patient without recent travel established Plasmodium falciparum molecular genotype identity in 2 patients who shared a hospital room. P. falciparum can be transmitted in a hospital environment from patient to patient by blood inoculum if standard precautions are breached.

Keywords

• Keywords: molecular epidemiology
• infection
• case report
• Malaria
• nosocomial
• microsatellite