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Salmonella Sepsis Caused by a Platelet Transfusion from a Donor with a Pet Snake

2002; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 347; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmoa021050

1533-4406

Mehrdad Jafari, Jean Forsberg, Ronald O. Gilcher, James W. Smith, James M. Crutcher, Michael McDermott, Brent R. Brown, James N. George,

Aquaculture disease management and microbiota

Two patients had salmonella sepsis after receiving platelet transfusions, and the source of the infection was traced to the pet snake of the platelet donor. The donor was asymptomatic, but Salmonella enterica serotype enteritidis was cultured from his pet boa constrictor. The isolate was identical to the isolates from the two patients with sepsis.