False-positive alarms for bacterial screening of platelet concentrates with BacT/ALERT new-generation plastic bottles: A multicenter pilot study

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1267-1274

  Müller, Thomas H ^a  

^a DRK Blutspendedienst NSTOB   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PH; PLASTIC BOTTLE; BACTERIUM; BLOOD STORAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PILOT STUDY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BACTERIA; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION;

EID: 23844451090     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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