Donor‐imported and transmitted malaria after lung transplantation

Two weeks after undergoing lung transplantation for smoking-related chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with emphysema, a 63-year-old woman complained of pain in the right hypochondrium (probably related to a pleural effusion). Along with an elevated leukocyte count (15.4 × 109/l), the automated blood count (XS1000®Sysmex, Kobe, Japan) revealed thrombocytosis (565 × 109/l). Examination of a blood film unexpectedly found that 6% of her red...