Fatal septic shock associated with transfusion-transmitted Serratia marcescens

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 679-681

  Ramírez Arcos, Sandra ^a   Chin Yee, Ian ^b   Hume, Heather ^c   Fearon, Margaret ^d   Goldman, Mindy ^e   Eckert, Kathleen ^b   Martincic, Irene ^a   Peters, Gary ^b   Kovach, Danuta ^f   Richardson, Susan E ^f  

^a Research and Development Department   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Transfusion Medicine

^d Medical Microbiology

^e CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROPENEM;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFUSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA FLUID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

EID: 33645303223     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00783.x     Document Type: Letter

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