Pall公司推出检测红细胞细菌污染的方法

 
一种高度敏感的以培养为基础的检验方法，在血液中心常规用于检测血小板中的细菌污染，现在被用于检测红细胞中的细菌污染。

Pall公司(East Hills, NY, USA)已经宣布，该公司的增强型细菌检测系统(eBDS) 已经获得了CE认证，可以用于检测红细胞中的细菌污染，这是应用最为广泛的输血成分。因为Pall eBDS用于检测血小板中的细菌，对于使用这种相同的技术来提高红细胞的安全性一直引起人们很大的兴趣。近期的研究业已证实，输遭到污染的红细胞可以导致胧毒败血症和死亡的发生，耶尔森氏鼠疫杆菌是最常见的污染细菌。
 
Test Detects Bacteria in Red Blood Cells
 
A highly sensitive culture-based test routinely used by blood centers to detect bacterial contamination of platelets is being used to detect bacteria that are commonly found as contaminants of red blood cells.

Pall Corporation (East Hills, NY, USA) has announced the CE marking of its enhanced bacteria detection system (eBDS) to detect bacterial contamination of red blood cells, the most widely transfused blood component. Since the availability of the Pall eBDS for detection of bacteria in platelets, there has been interest in applying the same technology to improve the safety of red blood cells. Recent studies have documented sepsis and death caused by transfusion of contaminated red cells, with the bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica most often implicated.