Bacterial contamination of peripheral blood progenitor cells for transplantation

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-110

  Jestice, H K ^a   Farrington, M ^a   Hunt, C ^b   Matthews, I ^a   Scott, M A ^a   Foreman, J ^b   Marcus, R E ^a  

^a CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b Regional Blood Transfusion Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Peripheral blood stem cells; Prophylactic antibiotics; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; SELECTION BIAS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0030159013     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.1996.d01-57.x     Document Type: Article

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