Letters to the editor

Transfusion

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 232-233

  Epstein, Jay S ^a   Vostal, Jaroslav G ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHERESIS; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CELL CULTURE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; UNITED STATES; BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; SKIN; THROMBOCYTOPHERESIS;

BACTERIA; BLOOD PLATELETS; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLATELETPHERESIS; SKIN;

EID: 84872241144     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2012.03809.x     Document Type: Letter

References (7)

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