First results using automated epifluorescence microscopy to detect Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis in WBC-reduced platelet concentrates

Transfusion

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1351-1355

  Seaver, Mark ^a,b,c   Crookston, James C ^a,b,c   Roselle, Dominick C ^a,b,c   Wagner, Stephen J ^a,b,c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH SUPPORT INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEUKOCYTE; MICROSCOPY; STAINING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD PLATELETS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035190297     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2001.41111351.x     Document Type: Article

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