Two cases of transfusion-transmitted Anaplasma phagocytophilum

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 562-565

  Annen, Kyle ^a,b   Friedman, Kenneth ^a   Eshoa, Camellia ^c   Horowitz, Mary ^d   Gottschall, Jerome ^d   Straus, Todd ^a,d  

^a BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Medical College of Wisconsin   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Blood banking; Human granulocytic anaplasmosis; Microbiology; Transfusion transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; METHOTREXATE; MICAFUNGIN; POSACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENGRAFTMENT; ERYTHROCYTE; FALLING; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; HYPERTENSION; JOINT DEGENERATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; NONMYELOABLATIVE STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PANCYTOPENIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEROLOGY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84860590931     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP4E4VQQQOZIAQ     Document Type: Article

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