Bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates: Where are we today?

Vox Sanguinis, Supplement

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Goldman, Mindy ^a  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCOSE; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD PH; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPLEMENT FIXATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOMETRY; DENTAL CARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; DRUG INACTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE CYTOMETRY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INFECTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGEN INACTIVATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SKIN FLORA; SKIN ULCER; SOLID PHASE CYTOMETRY; STAINING; STORAGE PERIOD; THROMBOCYTE PRESERVATION; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; HUMANS; PHLEBOTOMY; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY; SKIN; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 4444347753     PISSN: 17416892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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