LETTERS to the EDITORLeishmaniasis acquired in Belgium
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Global status of visceral leishmanial infection among blood donors: A systematic review and meta-analysis
2017, Transfusion and Apheresis ScienceCitation Excerpt :Currently six parasitic infections have yet considered as transfusion-transmitted infections (TTI) including Plasmodium spp., Trypanosoma cruzi, Leishmania spp., Babesia microti, Toxoplasma gondii and Filaria [4]. Despite the high incidence of leishmanial infection among blood donors, there are limited published reports of the transfusion-transmitted leishmaniasis (TTL) and only 14 cases of it have been reported from various VL endemic areas in the literature up to now [5–9]. Blood donors in VL endemic regions are the healthy individual who may have Leishmania infection without having apparent symptoms or signs.
The Impact of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Chinese Blood Safety
2017, Transfusion Medicine ReviewsCitation Excerpt :The infected individual may harbor a persistent infection up to 30 years before recovery [136]. The transmissibility of Leishmania infection via blood has been demonstrated in animals [137,138] as well as human beings [139-142]. Leishmania in human red blood cells (RBCs) can survive for as long as 15 days under blood bank storage conditions [143].
Transfusion transmitted leishmaniasis. What to do with blood donors from endemic areas?
2014, Travel Medicine and Infectious DiseaseCitation Excerpt :Shortly after birth, the child was repeatedly transfused for anemia. The period of incubation was 9 months [73]. A post-operative and post-transfusion case of VL, also affecting a child, was reported in United Kingdom in 1995.
Visceral leishmaniasis: Host-parasite interactions and clinical presentation in the immunocompetent and in the immunocompromised host
2013, International Journal of Infectious DiseasesCitation Excerpt :Parasite DNA has been detected in blood samples from blood donors,4,50–53 and its presence would reflect the very recent presence of viable parasites in the host, since DNA degradation occurs very rapidly after parasite death.54 Nevertheless, leishmaniasis transmission by blood transfusion has only very rarely been reported,1–4 and it is preventable by the particular treatment of blood units.4,55–57 Finally, the role of asymptomatically infected individuals in the transmission cycle is currently unknown; people infected with the zoonotic species L. infantum are probably not infectious for the sand fly vector, due to the very low or undetectable parasitemia found in this group, as demonstrated by the lack of infection in sand fly vectors that have fed on asymptomatic subjects infected with L. infantum.58
Clinical pleiomorphism in human leishmaniases, with special mention of asymptomatic infection
2011, Clinical Microbiology and InfectionCitation Excerpt :The first concerns the issue of disease risk resulting from blood transfusion from asymptomatic donors. The possibility of leishmaniasis transmission from an asymptomatic blood donor exists [138–142], and the risks to public health deserve to be assessed [143]. In France, there is no blood screening for Leishmania, even in the south, where L. infantum is endemic; but the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance estimates that the leukodepletion almost completely rules out the risk of transmission [143], and this was confirmed by the work of Riera et al. [144] in the Balearic Islands.
Leishmaniasis among organ transplant recipients
2008, The Lancet Infectious DiseasesCitation Excerpt :The natural transmission of the parasites is sustained by phlebotomine sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus (in the Old World) or Lutzomyia (in the New World). However, artificial transmission by means of blood transfusions2–5 or by needle sharing among intravenous drug addicts is also described.6 Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by the Leishmania donovani complex, which includes three species: Leishmania donovani, Leishmania infantum, and Leishmania chagasi (the latter two now being considered identical).