Modeling of bacterial contamination

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 569-570

  Brecher, Mark E ^a   Hay, Shauna N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHERESIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; THROMBOCYTE;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 39749092518     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01639.x     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Benjamin RJ, Wagner SJ. The residual risk of sepsis: modeling the effect of concentration on bacterial detection in two-bottle culture systems and an estimation of false-negative culture rates. Transfusion 2007 47 : 1381 9.
2. Brecher ME, Hay SN. Investigation of an isolate of Staphylococcus lugdunensis implicated in a platelet fatality: a possible advantage of the use of an anaerobic bottle. Transfusion 2007 47 : 1390 4.