Detection of bacteria in platelet concentrates prepared from spiked single donations using cultural and molecular genetic methods

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-70

  Stormer M ^a   Cassens, U ^b   Kleesiek, K ^a   Dreier, J ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM DORTMUND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Blood products; Magnetic bead technology; Real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE;

AEROBIOSIS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CENTRIFUGATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MAGNETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33846938053     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2006.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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