@article {4268,
	title = {Fatal reaction to transfusion  of red-cell concentrate contaminated with Serratia liquefaciens.},
	journal = {//Transfus Med},
	volume = {8},
	year = {1998},
	month = {1998},
	pages = {15 - 18},
	publisher = {*National  Blood Service, Southampton Centre, +Dept of Microbiology, St Mary{\textquoteright}s Hospital,  Newport IOW, and ++Dept of Surgery, St Mary{\textquoteright}s Hospital, Newport, IOW, UK},
	address = {(C) 1998 Blackwell Science Ltd.},
	abstract = {SUMMARY. A 60-year-old woman undergoing  surgery died from endotoxic shock and DIC after receiving a 19-day-old unit of optimal  additive red-cell concentrate found contaminated with Serratia liquefaciens.  No source of contamination could be found. This normally free-living organism is  usually of low pathogenicity. It is a very unusual contaminant of stored donated  blood, although it appears to be on the increase. When transfused, blood contaminated  with S. liquefaciens always causes severe morbidity and is associated  with a high death rate. This is the fifth report in the English literature., (C) 1998 Blackwell Science Ltd.},
	keywords = {bacterial contamination, blood products, red-cell  concentrates, Serratia  liquefaciens, Serratia spp.},
	isbn = {0958-7578},
	author = {Boulton, F. and Chapman, S. and Walsh, T.}
}
