Reducing the risk of transfusion-transmitted rickettsial disease by WBC filtration, using Orientia tsutsugamushi in a model system

Transfusion

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 290-296

  Mettille, C D R Frank ^a   Salata, K F ^b   Belanger, K J ^b   Casleton, B G ^b   Kelly, D J ^b  

^a USJFC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FILTER; BLOOD FILTRATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LEUKOCYTE; MODEL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RICKETTSIOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MICE; MONOCYTES; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; SCRUB TYPHUS;

EID: 0034099561     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40030290.x     Document Type: Article

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