Probable transfusion-transmission of Anaplasma phagocytophilum by leukoreduced platelets

Transfusion

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2828-2832

  Townsend, Rebecca L ^a   Moritz, Erin D ^a   Fialkow, Lawrence B ^a   Berardi, Victor ^b   Stramer, Susan L ^a  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^b IMUGEN Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TICK BITE; AGED; BLOOD; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; TRANSMISSION; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84912531050     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12675     Document Type: Article

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