Status:
Ready to upload
Record number:
1387
Adverse Occurrence type:
MPHO Type:
Time to detection:
Days, not stated precisely.
Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:
Fever.
Demonstration of imputability or root cause:
Donor developed symptoms (fever and dizziness) 18 hours post blood donation and 4 days after sustaining a tick bite. Recipient developed prolonged fever following transfusion. Colorado tick fever virus was isolated from the cellular fraction of the patient's peripheral blood and the patient recovered.
Imputability grade:
1 Possible
Groups audience:
Reference attachment:
Suggest references:
Centers for Disease Control: Transmission of Colorado tick fever virus by blood transfusion -- Montana. MMWR; (1975) 24:422-7.