TY - JOUR AU - Vita, Serena AU - Gabrielli, Simona AU - Fontanelli Sulekova, Lucia AU - De Angelis, Maurizio AU - Alessandri, Francesco AU - Pugliese, Francesco AU - Ruberto, Franco AU - Spagnolello, Ornella AU - Mazzocato, Valentina AU - Celani, Luigi AU - Lopalco, Maurizio AU - Mattiucci, Simonetta AU - Bazzardi, Riccardo AU - Angeletti, Silvia AU - Ciccozzi, Massimo AU - d’Ettorre, Gabriella AU - Ceccarelli, Giancarlo PY - 2021/01/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Malaria in an asylum seeker paediatric liver transplant recipient: diagnostic challenges for migrant population JF - The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries JA - J Infect Dev Ctries VL - 15 IS - 01 SE - Case Reports DO - 10.3855/jidc.12541 UR - https://www.jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/33571161 SP - 172-178 AB - <p>Transplanted patients are particularly exposed to a major risk of infectious diseases due to prolonged immunosuppressive treatment. Over the last decade, the growing migration flows and the transplant tourism have led to increasing infections caused by geographically restricted organisms. Malaria is an unusual event in organ transplant recipients than can be acquired primarily or reactivation following immunosuppression, by transfusion of blood products or through the transplanted organ. We report a rare case of <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection in a liver transplanted two years-old African boy who presented to one Italian Asylum Seeker Center on May 2019. We outlined hereby diagnostic challenges, possible aetiologies of post-transplantation malaria and finally we summarized potential drug interactions between immunosuppressive agents and antimalarials. This report aims to increase the attention to newly arrived migrants, carefully evaluating patients coming from tropical areas and taking into consideration also rare tropical infections not endemic in final destination countries.</p> ER -