Bacterial testing of platelet components: Is there added benefit for our donors?

Transfusion

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2117-2119

  McDonald, Carl ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ABIOTROPHIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL TESTING OF PLATELET COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GALLOLYTICUS;

BACTERIA; BLOOD; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84885753773     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12385     Document Type: Editorial

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