Validation of BacT/ALERT plastic culture bottles for use in testing of whole-blood-derived leukoreduced platelet-rich-plasma-derived platelets

Transfusion

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1174-1178

  Brecher, M E ^a   Hay, S N ^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; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD STORAGE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; INOCULATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SCREENING TEST; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE PRESERVATION; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHOLE BLOOD DERIVED LEUKOREDUCED PLATELET RICH PLASMA DERIVED PLATELET;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3342926233     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2004.04033.x     Document Type: Article

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