Abstract
ABSTRACTTo develop novel techniques for improving blood safety, dedicated bacterial strains, which are able to persist and to proliferate in blood platelet concentrates, are needed. Here, we present draft genome sequences of the four bacterial strains approved for the first WHO repository of platelet transfusion-relevant bacterial reference strains.
Highlights
To develop novel techniques for improving blood safety, dedicated bacterial strains, which are able to persist and to proliferate in blood platelet concentrates, are needed
We present draft genome sequences of the four bacterial strains approved for the first WHO repository of platelet transfusion-relevant bacterial reference strains
In spite of the improvements made over the last decade to reduce the frequency of transfusion-transmitted bacterial infections—such as the introduction of closed systems, the improvement of techniques for skin disinfection, and the diversion of first blood volume at the time of donation— bacterial contamination of platelet concentrates (PCs) is still the major posttransfusion infectious risk [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
Summary
To develop novel techniques for improving blood safety, dedicated bacterial strains, which are able to persist and to proliferate in blood platelet concentrates, are needed. We present draft genome sequences of the four bacterial strains approved for the first WHO repository of platelet transfusion-relevant bacterial reference strains.
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