Volume 87, Issue 4 pp. 299-301

Positive BacT/ALERT signal from a platelet concentrate 23 h before the donor was admitted to hospital with Streptococcus pneumoniae septicaemia

C. P. Larsen,

C. P. Larsen

Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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N. O. Hermansen,

N. O. Hermansen

Department of Microbiology, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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T. Dahl,

T. Dahl

Department of Internal Medicine, Aker University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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J. Kjeldsen-Kragh,

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J. Kjeldsen-Kragh

Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Correspondence: Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevål University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, N-0407 Oslo, Norway
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C. P. Larsen,

C. P. Larsen

Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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N. O. Hermansen,

N. O. Hermansen

Department of Microbiology, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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T. Dahl,

T. Dahl

Department of Internal Medicine, Aker University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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J. Kjeldsen-Kragh,

Corresponding Author

J. Kjeldsen-Kragh

Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

First published: 07 December 2004

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.2004.00568.x

Citations: 6

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