Evaluation of BacT/ALERT plastic culture bottles for use in testing pooled whole blood-derived leukoreduced platelet-rich plasma platelets with a single contaminated unit

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1512-1517

  Brecher, M E ^a   Hay, S N ^b   Rose, A D ^b   Rothenberg, S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD STORAGE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKAPHERESIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

PLASTIC;

BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EVALUATION STUDIES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE REDUCTION PROCEDURES; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PLASTICS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION;

EID: 26944477485     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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