Bacterial contamination of blood and blood components in three major blood transfusion centers, Accra, Ghana

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-269

  Adjei, Andrew Anthony ^a   Kuma, George Khumalo ^a   Tettey, Yao ^a   Ayeh Kumi, Patrick Ferdinand ^a   Opintan, Japheth ^a   Apeagyei, Francis ^b   Ankrah, Jacob Otinkorang ^a   Adiku, Theophilus Korku ^a   Narter Olaga, Edwin Gbli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b Milit Hosp   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GHANA; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; BLOOD STORAGE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESERVATION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; GHANA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 69449092163     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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