Fatal reaction to transfusion of red-cell concentrate contaminated with Serratia liquefaciens

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-18

  Boulton, F E ^a,c   Chapman, S T ^b   Walsh, T H ^b  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Southampton Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Blood products; Red cell concentrates; Serratia liquefaciens; Serratia spp.

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD STORAGE; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EQUIPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SERRATIA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ENDOTOXINS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SERRATIA; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 0032032955     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.1998.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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