一種高度敏感的以培養為基礎的檢驗方法，在血液中心常規用于檢測血小板中的細菌污染，現在被用于檢測紅細胞中的細菌污染。

Pall公司(East Hills, NY, USA)已經宣布，該公司的增強型細菌檢測系統(eBDS) 已經獲得了CE認證，可以用于檢測紅細胞中的細菌污染，這是應用最為廣泛的輸血成分。因為Pall eBDS用于檢測血小板中的細菌，對于使用這種相同的技術來提高紅細胞的安全性一直引起人們很大的興趣。近期的研究業已證實，輸遭到污染的紅細胞可以導致朧毒敗血癥和死亡的發生，耶爾森氏鼠疫桿菌是最常見的污染細菌。
 
Test Detects Bacteria in Red Blood Cells
 
A highly sensitive culture-based test routinely used by blood centers to detect bacterial contamination of platelets is being used to detect bacteria that are commonly found as contaminants of red blood cells.

Pall Corporation (East Hills, NY, USA) has announced the CE marking of its enhanced bacteria detection system (eBDS) to detect bacterial contamination of red blood cells, the most widely transfused blood component. Since the availability of the Pall eBDS for detection of bacteria in platelets, there has been interest in applying the same technology to improve the safety of red blood cells. Recent studies have documented sepsis and death caused by transfusion of contaminated red cells, with the bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica most often implicated.