Two-year experience with aerobic culturing of apheresis and whole blood-derived platelets

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1787-1794

  Kleinman, Steven H ^a   Kamel, Hany T ^a   Harpool, Dennis R ^a   Vanderpool, Sandra K ^a   Custer, Brian ^a   Wiltbank, Thomas B ^a   Nguyen, Kim Anh ^a   Tomasulo, Peter A ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS; UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; PLATELETPHERESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748947367     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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