Optimized Scansystem™ platelet kit for bacterial detection with enhanced sensitivity: Detection within 24 h after spiking

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 135-139

  Schmidt, Michael ^a   Weis, Christina ^a   Heck, Julia ^a   Montag, Thomas ^b   Nicol, Sven Boris ^b   Hourfar, Michael K ^a   Schaefer, Volker ^a   Sireis, Walid ^a   Roth, W Kurt ^a   Seifried, Erhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apheresis platelets; Optimized Scansystem ; Rapid bacterial detection method; Spiking study

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLATELETPHERESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 25144432374     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2005.00673.x     Document Type: Article

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