Monitoring of apheresis platelet bacterial contamination with an automated liquid culture system: A university experience

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 974-978

  Brecher, Mark E ^a   Hay, S N ^b   Rothenberg, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHERESIS; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; LIQUID CULTURE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD COMPONENT REMOVAL; BLOOD PLATELETS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0037631609     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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