Bacterial skin flora and contamination of blood components: Do we defer blood donors wisely?

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-98

  Pastila, S ^a   Lonnroth M ^a   Heikkila R ^a   Heikkila H ^b   Carlson, P ^a  

^a FINNISH RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; Blood collection; Donors; Quality management; Transfusion transmissible infections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VEIN PUNCTURE;

BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD DONORS; COHORT STUDIES; DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84864026165     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2012.01591.x     Document Type: Article

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