Three days after donation of peripheral blood stem cells to a recipient with acute myeloblastic leukemia, dengue virus was detected in the donor, who had recently traveled to Sri Lanka. Transmission to the recipient, who died 9 days after transplant, was confirmed.
Keywords: Dengue; Flaviviridae; Germany; PCR; RNA; Sri Lanka; arthropod; blood; donor; fatal; mosquito; stem cell; transplant; vectorborne; viruses.