You receive a wound tissue in the microbiology lab, set up appropriate plates for culture, and perform a direct gram stain.  The direct gram stain shows small, faint staining, gram negative rods.  What are appropriate next steps to take with this culture?

The platelet count of the plateletpheresis donor must be what prior to the procedure?

Which of these techniques best helps to reduce infections with cytomegalovirus?

HPC transplant recipients require significant blood product support because they:

In the Kleihauer-Betke Acid Stain, how are the maternal and fetal cells differentiated?

Which protein surface marker is used to assess the concentration of HPCs?

Where is the antigen from and where is the antibody from in the crossmatch tubes?

A patient inherited the following alleles: Lele, Sese, H. What Lewis antigen must be on the surface of their red blood cells?

Which one of the following blood group antibodies (in its occasional IgG form), rarely causes Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN) because there are few corresponding antigens on fetal and newborn red blood cells.

HPC-M collections are performed: