title: Reduction of the risk of bacterial contamination of blood components through diversion of the first part of the donation of blood and blood components.
authors.affiliation: Centro Nazionale Sangue, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy. giancarlo@liumbruno.it; ricerca.cns@iss.it
authors.forename: Giancarlo Maria
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Liumbruno
authors.forename: Liviana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Catalano
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Piccinini
authors.forename: Simonetta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pupella
authors.forename: Giuliano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grazzini
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D000094902:Blood Banking / Q000379:methods*; D001782:Blood Donors; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D004867:Equipment Design; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D011786:Quality Control; D012306:Risk; D065227:Transfusion Reaction