[A case of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a nurse].

A case of plasmodium falciparum malaria in a 21-year old nurse, who never left Poland, was described. Malaria was confirmed by parasitological examination of peripheral blood smears in which 20% of erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium falciparum were found. The course of the disease was very severe but the patient survived. The only possibility of infection must have been through skin lesion on the nurse's hand during obtaining blood from the patient infected with Plasmodium falciparum.