Bacterial contamination of random-donor platelets in a university hospital in the midwestern region of Brazil

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 282-285

  Cunha, Geraldo ^a,b   Leão, Lara ^b   Pimenta, Fabiana ^b  

^a Jardim Irajá Quarter ^*  (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; BRAZIL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENTEROBACTER; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BRAZIL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 38649142176     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01520.x     Document Type: Article

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