Transfusion-Associated Acute Chagas Disease Acquired in the United States.

: Although a significant problem in Latin America (1), the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection by transfusion has not been unequivocally documented in the United States. We report a case of severe acute transfusion-acquired Chagas disease in a child with Hodgkin disease who had never travelled to an endemic area; however, she had received platelets from an asymptomatic Bolivian immigrant who had serologic evidence of T. cruzi infection., An 11-year-old white girl with Hodgkin disease who had been in remission since May 1987 after splenectomy, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy presented in April 1988 with a temperature of 38.3 [degrees]C. Her physical examination, (C) 1989 American College of Physicians