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Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024
Research

Formation of Single-Species and Multispecies Biofilm by Isolates from Septic Transfusion Reactions in Platelet Bag Model

Cheryl Anne Hapip, Erin Fischer, Tamar Perla Feldman, and Bethany L. BrownComments to Author 
Author affiliation: American Red Cross, Rockville, Maryland, USA

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Table

Acinetobacter spp. bacteria–related and polymicrobial septic transfusion reactions, United States, May 2018–July 2021*

Year and month Location (outcome) Risk mitigation (result) Bacterial species
2018 May Northern California Pathogen-reduction technology A–S†
2018 May Utah (fatality) Aerobic culture (neg) A
2018 Oct Connecticut‡ Aerobic culture (neg), rapid antigen test (neg) A–S
2018 Oct Connecticut‡ Aerobic culture (neg), rapid antigen test (neg) A–S
2020 Jun North and South Carolina (fatality) Pathogen-reduction technology A–S–L
2020 Jun Central Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Aerobic culture (neg), anaerobic culture (neg) A§
2021 Jul Ohio (fatality) Pathogen-reduction technology A–S–L†
2021 Jul
 Virginia
 Pathogen-reduction technology
 S–L
*A, Acinetobacter spp.; L, Leclercia adecarboxylata; neg, negative; S, Staphylococcus saprophyticus.
†Clinical isolates used in the experiments.
‡Two separate reactions from a double platelet.
§Case was excluded from Acinetobacter spp. cluster investigation by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and US Food and Drug Administration based on whole-genome sequencing data (5,36).

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