Determination of the degree of bacterial contamination of whole-blood collections using an automated microbe-detection system

Transfusion

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 815-818

  De Korte, Dirk ^a   Marcelis, Jan H ^a   Soeterboek, A M ^a  

^a CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PREVALENCE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS;

EID: 0034970055     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2001.41060815.x     Document Type: Article

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