Post transfusion septicaemia 1980 - 1989 : Importance of donor arm cleansing
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were replaced with a closed plastic pack system for taking blood donations.' Although the incidence of PTS has decreased, it has not disappeared entirely'; there seems to have been a resurgence ofinterest in it and reports about it over the past few years, in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America.23 In 1987 there were five reported cases in this country of which four were fatal. This is likely to reflect a greater mortality than from the total of hepatitis B, human immune deficiency virus and syphilis transmitted by transfusion of cellular blood products.'7 Logically, the most likely bacteria to cause
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Post transfusion septicaemia 1980-1989: importance of donor arm cleansing.
AIMS To determine the prevalence of Pseudomonas fluorescens on the arms of blood donors, and to elucidate one possible cause for its predominance (60% of cases during 1980-89) in exogenous post transfusion septicaemia (PTS). METHODS Skin swabs were taken from the arms of 782 blood donors and cultured on to heated blood agar. After incubation, Oxidase reagent and the Gram stain were used to se...
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تاریخ انتشار 2004