Relationship between bacterial load, species virulence, and transfusion reaction with transfusion of bacterially contaminated platelets

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1214-1220

  Jacobs, Michael R ^a   Good, Caryn E ^a   Lazarus, Hillard M ^a   Yomtovian, Roslyn A ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; HUMANS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 42549114908     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/529143     Document Type: Article

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