Published in Blood Weekly, October 5th, 2006
The Pall eBDS is a highly sensitive culture-based test routinely used by blood centers to detect bacterial contamination of platelets, the leading infectious cause of sickness and death from a transfusion. Results of a new study presented at the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) 2006 Congress show the efficacy of the system in also detecting bacteria that are commonly found as contaminants of red blood cells.
Since the availability of the Pall eBDS for detection of...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-10-05)
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