Bacterial contamination of platelet pools--Ohio, 1991.
From June 27 through July 30, 1991, four episodes of bacterial contamination of platelet pools occurred in an Ohio hospital and were reported by the hospital through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to CDC. This report summarizes the results of the epidemiologic investigation of these episodes.
D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D016913:Blood Component Transfusion / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000382:microbiology*; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio / Q000453:epidemiology; D017713:Platelet Transfusion