Current Situation of Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria in China

Table 2

Plasmodium detection and species identification in the 12 Chinese cases of TTM.

Case no.		Parasite detection			Plasmodium
		RDT	Microscopy	PCR	Species	Source
1	D	NA	＋	nPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Equatorial Guinea
	R	＋	＋	nPCR/＋
2	D	−	−	nMulti-PCR/＋	P. vivax	Cote d’Ivoire
	R	＋	＋	nPCR/＋
3	D	−	＋	Rt-fqPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Equatorial Guinea
	R	＋	＋	Rt-fqPCR/＋
4	D	＋	＋	—	P. falciparum	Cameroon
	R	NA	＋	—
5	D	NA	＋	PCR/＋	P. ovale	Equatorial Guinea
	R	NA	＋	PCR/＋
6	D	−	＋	Rt-fPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Indonesia
	R	＋	＋	Rt-fPCR/＋
7	D	−	＋	Rt-fPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Nigeria
	R	＋	＋	Rt-fPCR/＋
8	D	＋	−	nPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Sudan
	R	＋	＋	nPCR/＋
9	D	＋	−	Rt-fPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Equatorial Guinea
	R	＋	＋	Rt-fPCR/＋
10	D	＋	−	nPCR/＋	P. falciparum	Cameroon
	R	＋	＋	nPCR/＋
11	D	＋	＋	PCR/＋	P. falciparum	Ghana
	R	＋	＋	PCR/＋
12	D	−	−	nMulti-PCR/＋	P. vivax	—
	R	＋	＋	nPCR/＋

D, donor; R, recipient; NA, not applicable; —, unknown; nPCR, nested PCR; nMulti-PCR, nested-Multi PCR; Rt-fqPCR, real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR.