| microbial contamination of hematopoietic stem cell products: incidence and clinical sequelae. | microbial contamination of hematopoietic stem cell products is a rare but potentially fatal complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. we report the incidence of contaminated products and describe the clinical outcomes for 35 patients at the university of minnesota who received contaminated products from january 1990 to december 2004. in total, 2935 products were infused for 2863 transplants during this time, 36 of which 36 (1.2%) were contaminated. coagulase negative staphylococcu ... | 2006 | 17085307 |