Monitoring of apheresis platelet bacterial contamination with an automated liquid culture system: a university experience
- 20 June 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Transfusion
- Vol. 43 (7) , 974-978
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00438.x
Abstract
BACKGROUND: With 4 million platelet units transfused per year in the United States and with the current estimate of bacteria contamination rate in PLT units, it would be expected that 2000 to 4000 ba...Keywords
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