Transfusion-transmitted Klebsiella pneumoniae fatalities, 1995 to 2004

Transfusion Medicine Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-157

  Niu, Manette T ^a   Knippen, Maureen ^b   Simmons, Lois ^b   Holness, Leslie G ^b  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AMYLOIDOSIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DEATH; ERYTHROCYTE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION;

EID: 33645243920     PISSN: 08877963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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