Novel flow cytometry-based screening for bacterial contamination of donor platelet preparations compared with other rapid screening methods

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1492-1502

  Dreier, Jens ^a   Vollmer, Tanja ^a   Kleesiek, Knut ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DONOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PLATE COUNT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 68149125116     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2008.122515     Document Type: Article

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