Apheresis technology correlates with bacterial contamination of platelets and reported septic transfusion reactions

Eder, AF; Dy, BA; DeMerse, B; Wagner, SJ; Stramer, SL; O'Neill, EM; Herron, RM

Herron, RM (reprint author), Amer Red Cross, 100 Red Cross Circle, Pomona, CA 91768 USA.

TRANSFUSION, 2017; 57 (12): 2969

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Apheresis technology to collect platelet (PLT) components differs among devices. We evaluated the relationship of the plateletpheresis dev......

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