Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Dispatch
Severe Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis Transmitted by Blood Transfusion
Table 2
Results of PCR and IFA for IgG against Anaplasma. phagocytophilum for index patient and blood donor, Slovenia, 2010*
Date, 2010 |
Patient
|
Donor
|
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PCR | IFA | Remarks | PCR | IFA | Remarks | ||
May 12† | – | – | 118 d before index donation | ||||
Aug 28–29 | ND | ND | Febrile illness | ||||
Sep | |||||||
7† |
+ | >1,024 | Index donation | ||||
15 |
– | – | Transfusion | ||||
25 |
ND | ND | Onset of febrile illness | ||||
Oct | |||||||
1 |
+‡ | – | Treatment with doxycycline Oct 1–14 | ||||
4 |
+ | 128 | |||||
6 |
+ | 512 | |||||
9 |
+ | ND | |||||
10 |
– | ND | |||||
12 |
– | 512 | |||||
19 |
ND | 512 | |||||
20 |
– | >1,024 | 43 d after index donation | ||||
Nov 23 | ND | >1,024 | No reports of problems |
*Results for IFA are shown in titers. IFA, immunofluorescence assay; ND, not done; –, negative; +, positive.
†Retrospective testing of stored blood specimen.
‡DNA detected in stored bone marrow–biopsy specimen.