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A Locally Acquired Falciparum Malaria via Nosocomial Transmission in Korea
Jung-Yeon Kim, Jeong-Su Kim, Mi-Hyun Park, Young-A Kang, Jun-Wook Kwon, Shin-Hyeong Cho, Byeong-Chul Lee, Tong-Soo Kim, Jong-Koo Lee
Korean J Parasitol 2009;47(3):269-273.
Published online August 28, 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2009.47.3.269

A 57-year old man who was admitted to an emergency room of a tertiary hospital with hemoptysis developed malarial fever 19 days later and then died from severe falciparum malaria 2 days later. He had not traveled outside of Korea for over 30 years. Through intensive interviews and epidemiological surveys, we found that a foreign patient with a recent history of travel to Africa was transferred to the same hospital with severe falciparum malaria. We confirmed through molecular genotyping of the MSP-1 gene that Plasmodium falciparum genotypes of the 2 patients were identical. It is suggested that a breach of standard infection control precautions resulted in this P. falciparum transmission between 2 patients in a hospital environment. This is the first report of a nosocomial transmission of falciparum malaria in Korea.

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