Fatal false-negative transfusion infection involving a buffy coat platelet pool contaminated with biofilm-positive Staphylococcus epidermidis: A case report

Transfusion

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2384-2389

  Kou, Yuntong ^a   Pagotto, Franco ^b   Hannach, Barbara ^a   Ramirez Arcos, Sandra M ^a  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BIOFILM; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CASE REPORT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DYSPNEA; FALSE NEGATIVE TRANSFUSION INFECTION; FEVER; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NAUSEA; RIBOTYPING; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENECTOMY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TEST STRIP; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; VITAL SIGN; FATALITY; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOFILMS; BLOOD BUFFY COAT; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; MALE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84943814022     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13154     Document Type: Article

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