Use of a pH meter for bacterial screening of whole blood platelets

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1133-1137

  Yazer, Mark H ^a   Triulzi, Darrell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL SERVICE; PH MEASUREMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE PRESERVATION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION-SELECTIVE ELECTRODES; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21644458065     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00168.x     Document Type: Article

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