Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2014)

Dengue Virus Transmission by Blood Stem Cell Donor after Travel to Sri Lanka; Germany, 2013

  • Michael Punzel,
  • Gülay Korukluoğlu,
  • Dilek Yagci Caglayik,
  • Dilek Menemenlioglu,
  • Sinem Civriz Bozdag,
  • Emre Tekgündüz,
  • Fevzi Altuntaş,
  • Renata de Mendonca Campos,
  • Bernd Burde,
  • Stephan Günther,
  • Dennis Tappe,
  • Daniel Cadar,
  • Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2008.140508
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 8
pp. 1366 – 1369

Abstract

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Three days after donation of peripheral blood stem cells to a recipient with acute myeloblastic leukemia, dengue virus was detected in the donor, who had recently traveled to Sri Lanka. Transmission to the recipient, who died 9 days after transplant, was confirmed.

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