Recovery and viability of Orientia tsutsugamushi from packed red cells and the danger of acquiring scrub typhus from blood transfusion

Transfusion

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 680-689

  Casleton, B G ^a   Salata, K ^a   Dasch, G A ^b   Strickman, D ^c   Kelly, D J ^c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; INFECTION RISK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 0031828218     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1998.38798346638.x     Document Type: Article

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