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Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
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Pseudomonas poae–Associated Fatal Septic Transfusion Reaction, Peoria, Illinois, USA, 2017

Therese S. Woodring and John J. FarrellComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, USA (T.S. Woodring, J.J. Farrell); OSF System Laboratory, Peoria (J.J. Farrell)

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Table 1

Fatalities caused by red blood cell transfusions reported to the US Food and Drug Administration, 2005–2016*

Year No. fatalities Organisms (no.)
2005 1 Serratia marcescens
2006 4 Babesia microti (n = 2), Escherichia coli (n = 1), Yersinia enterocolitica (n = 1)
2007 3 B. microti
2008 5 B. microti
2009 0
2010 1 B. microti
2011 1 B. microti
2012 1 B. microti
2013 2 B. microti (n = 1), Pseudomonas fluorescens (n = 1)
2014 0
2015 1 Enterococcus faecium
2016
 3
 B. microti (n = 2), P. fluorescens (n = 1)
All 22 B. microti (n = 16), P. fluorescens (n = 2), E. coli (n = 1), Y. enterocolitica (n = 1), S. marcescens (n = 1), E. faecium (n = 1)

*See (2,3).

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