Experience with universal bacterial culturing to detect contamination of apheresis platelet units in a hospital transfusion service
- 24 July 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Transfusion
- Vol. 42 (7) , 855-861
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00136.x
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Bacterial contamination of platelet units poses one of the greatest risks of morbidity and mortality to platelet transfusion recipients. A routine culture of all units (WBC‐reduced apher...Keywords
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