Anaplasma phagocytophilum transmitted through blood transfusion - Minnesota, 2007

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 57, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 1145-1148

  Kemperman, M ^a   Neitzel, D ^a   Jensen, K ^b   Gorlin, J ^b   Perry, E ^b   Myers, T ^c   Miley, T ^c   McQuiston, J ^d   Eremeeva, M E ^d   Nicholson, W ^d   Singleton, J ^d   Adjemian, J ^e  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Memorial Blood Centers   (United States)

^c Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital   (United States)

^d National Center for Zoonotic Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases

^e CDC ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DOXYCYCLINE;

AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BLOOD DONORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; EHRLICHIOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 54449086583     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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