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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
² American Red Cross Southern Region, Douglasville, GA.

Comment

Maureen J Miller et al. Transfusion. 2019 Oct.

. 2019 Oct;59(10):3288-3289.

doi: 10.1111/trf.15458.

¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
² American Red Cross Southern Region, Douglasville, GA.

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