Bacterial culture reduces but does not eliminate the risk of septic transfusion reactions to single-donor platelets

Transfusion

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2588-2593

  Fuller, Alice K ^a   Uglik, Kristin M ^a   Savage, William J ^a   Ness, Paul M ^a   King, Karen E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; HYDROXYUREA; MEROPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CHILL; CLINICAL STUDY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; FEVER; FULMINATING PURPURA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD DONORS; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 71849089621     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02348.x     Document Type: Article

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