Bacterial contamination of blood products: Factors, options, and insights
- 2 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Apheresis
- Vol. 16 (4) , 192-201
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jca.10004
Abstract
Transfusion of bacterially contaminated blood products remains an overlooked problem. However, the risk of receiving a bacterially contaminated unit is greater than the combined risk of HIV‐1/2, HCV, HBV, and HTLV I/II [American Association of Blood Banks Bulletin, no. 294, 1996]. Topics covered in this article include: the current incidence, clinical presentation and outcome, effective methods of detection, and ways to reduce bacterial contamination of blood products. There is no one existing strategy that can completely eliminate the risk of bacterial contamination. It is inevitable that partial solutions or combinations of methods will be implemented in the near future. J. Clin. Apheresis 16:192–201, 2001.Keywords
This publication has 64 references indexed in Scilit:
- Evaluation of an automated culture systemfor detecting bacterial contamination of platelets: an analysis with 15 contaminating organismsTransfusion, 2001
- Bacterial Contamination of Blood ComponentsVox Sanguinis, 2000
- Automatic volumetric capillary cytometry for counting white cells in white cell‐reduced plateletpheresis componentsTransfusion, 1997
- A prospective study of symptomatic bacteremia following platelet transfusion and of its managementTransfusion, 1994
- A prospective microbiologic surveillance program to detect and prevent the transfusion of bacterially contaminated plateletsTransfusion, 1993
- Septic Shock Due to Yersinia enterocolitica After Autologous TransfusionClinical Infectious Diseases, 1993
- Strategies for the avoidance of bacterial contamination of blood componentsTransfusion, 1993
- Removal of Yersinia enterocolitica from AS‐1 red cellsTransfusion, 1992
- Screening blood donors for gastrointestinal illness: a strategy to eliminate carriers of Yersinia enterocoliticaTransfusion, 1991
- Sepsis associated with transfusion of red cells contaminated with Yersinia enterocoliticaTransfusion, 1990