Bacterial screening of outdated buffy coat platelet pools using a culture system and a rapid immunoassay

Transfusion

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2566-2572

  Ramírez Arcos, Sandra ^a   Kou, Yuntong ^a   Mastronardi, Cherie ^a   Perkins, Heather ^a   Goldman, Mindy ^a  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BUFFY COAT PLATELET POOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOASSAY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE PRESERVATION;

BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD PLATELETS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 83555176242     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03311.x     Document Type: Article

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