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Healthcare-Associated Transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in New York City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2015

Ellen H. Lee ,
Eleanor H. Adams ,
Susan Madison-Antenucci ,
Lillian Lee ,
John W. Barnwell ,
Joan Whitehouse ,
Ernest Clement ,
Waheed Bajwa ,
Lucretia E. Jones  and
Emily Lutterloh
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Ellen H. Lee*
Affiliation:
Bureau of Communicable Diseases, Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York
Eleanor H. Adams
Affiliation:
Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control Program, Metropolitan Area Regional Office, New York State Department of Health, New Rochelle, New York
Susan Madison-Antenucci
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Parasitology Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York
Lillian Lee
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York
John W. Barnwell
Affiliation:
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Joan Whitehouse
Affiliation:
Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control Program, Metropolitan Area Regional Office, New York State Department of Health, New Rochelle, New York
Ernest Clement
Affiliation:
Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York.
Waheed Bajwa
Affiliation:
Office of Vector Surveillance and Control, Division of Environmental Health, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York.
Lucretia E. Jones
Affiliation:
Bureau of Communicable Diseases, Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York
Emily Lutterloh
Affiliation:
Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York.
Don Weiss
Affiliation:
Bureau of Communicable Diseases, Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York
Joel Ackelsberg
Affiliation:
Bureau of Communicable Diseases, Division of Disease Control, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Queens, New York
*
Address correspondence to Ellen H. Lee, MD, Bureau of Communicable Diseases, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 2 Gotham Center, CN 22A, 42-09 28th St, 6th Fl, Long Island City, New York 11101 (elee4@health.nyc.gov).
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Abstract

A patient with no risk factors for malaria was hospitalized in New York City with Plasmodium falciparum infection. After investigating all potential sources of infection, we concluded the patient had been exposed to malaria while hospitalized less than 3 weeks earlier. Molecular genotyping implicated patient-to-patient transmission in a hospital setting.

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;37(1):113–115

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 113 - 115
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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