Bacterial screening of platelet concentrates on day 2 and 3 with flow cytometry: The optimal sampling time point?

Blood Transfusion

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 388-395

  Vollmer, Tanja ^a   Schottstedt, Volkmar ^b   Bux, Juergen ^b   Walther Wenke, Gabriele ^b   Knabbe, Cornelius ^a   Dreier, Jens ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b GRC West Blood Donation Service   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial contamination; BactiFlow; Flow cytometry; Rapid method; Screening strategy

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; SAMPLING; SCREENING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; BLOOD STORAGE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE; TIME;

BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904612751     PISSN: 17232007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2450/2014.0175-13     Document Type: Article

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