Abstract
Screening Blood Donors at Risk for Malaria: Reply to Hänscheid et al.
Highlights
To the Editor: The letter to editor by Hänscheid et al addresses our suggestion that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) could serve as a reference test for screening blood donations
In accordance with the parasitologic definition of equilibrium between parasite and host, one of the main strategies for parasite survival is sustained malaria transmission, which allows low parasitemias to be ingested by the anopheline vector (1)
Two of the three cases described by Slinger et al (4) were in blood donors positive by microscopy or PCR. These results show that parasites could have been detected in these cases, reflecting that all blood samples had detectable parasitemias
Summary
To the Editor: The letter to editor by Hänscheid et al addresses our suggestion that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) could serve as a reference test for screening blood donations.
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