Validation of sterility testing of cord blood: Challenges and results

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1985-1992

  Ramirez Arcos, Sandra ^a   Kou, Yuntong ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Perkins, Heather ^a   Taha, Mariam ^a   Halpenny, Mike ^a   Elmoazzen, Heidi ^a  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETASTARCH; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HETASTARCH DERIVATIVE;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS BRASILIENSIS; AUTOMATED CULTURE SYSTEM; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STERILITY TESTING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD STORAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DEUTEROMYCETES; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; FETUS BLOOD; FUNGEMIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FETAL BLOOD; FUNGEMIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYDROXYETHYL STARCH DERIVATIVES; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; INFANT, NEWBORN; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MYCOLOGY; PLASMA;

EID: 84938975945     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13050     Document Type: Article

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