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Record number:

1313

Adverse Occurrence type:

MPHO Type:

Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:

None reported. Transfusion reaction associated with endotoxin and fatality.

Demonstration of imputability or root cause:

By study protocol, organism cultured from unit and recipient, with isolates indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.

Imputability grade:

3 Definite/Certain/Proven

Groups audience:

Infections -- Bacteria

Keywords:

blood transfusion

apheresis platelets

endotoxic shock

PFGE (pulsed field gel electrophoresis)

Providencia rettgeri

References:

Transfusion-transmitted bacterial infection in the United States, 1998 through 2000.

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Reference attachment:

Kuehnert_et_al-2001-Transfusion.pdf

Suggest references:

Kuehnert, M.J., Roth, V.R., Haley, N.R., Gregory, K.R., Elder, K.V., Schreiber, G.B., Arduino, M.J., Holt, S.C., Carson, L.A., Banerjee, S.N. and Jarvis, W.R. (2001). Transfusion-transmitted bacterial infection in the United States, 1998 through 2000. Transfsuion 41(12): 1493 -9.

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