Transfusion reaction due to Klebsiella pneumoniae-contaminated red blood cells: A case report

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 445-446

  Warnke, P ^a   Kiefel, V ^b   Schaffler H ^c   Podbielski, A ^a  

^a Institute of Medical Microbiology   (Germany)

^b Institutes of Transfusion Medicine   (Germany)

^c ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUODENUM ULCER; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE;

EID: 84888378049     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tme.12078     Document Type: Letter

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