Sandra Ramirez-Arcos (S Ramirez-Arcos)

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2016-2024
Publications (10 Years): 42

Top Topics

Room Temperature

Biofilm Formation

Staphylococcus Aureus

Top Venues

Microbiology resource announcements

Access microbiology

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Publications

Yuntong Kou, Dilini Kumaran, Anita Howell, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparable bacterial growth in platelet concentrates suspended in plasma and platelet additive solution and improved detection of bacterial contamination using a new generation automated culture system. Transfusion 64 (4) (2024)
Yuntong Kou, Dilini Kumaran, Anita Howell, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparable bacterial growth in platelet concentrates suspended in plasma and platelet additive solution and improved detection of bacterial contamination using a new generation automated culture system. Transfusion 64 (4) (2024)
Marcel Prax, Carl Peter McDonald, Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding, Marc Cloutier, Ute Gravemann, Anna Grothaus, Oleg Krut, Xoliswa Mpumlwana, Niamh O'Flaherty, Masahiro Satake, Bianca Stafford, Susanne Suessner, Tanja Vollmer, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, null null
Characterization of transfusion-relevant bacteria reference strains in a lyophilized format. Vox sanguinis (2024)
Basit Yousuf, Annika Flint, Kelly Weedmark, Franco Pagotto, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparative virulome analysis of four Staphylococcus epidermidis strains from human skin and platelet concentrates using whole genome sequencing. Access microbiology 6 (4) (2024)
Basit Yousuf, Annika Flint, Kelly Weedmark, Franco Pagotto, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparative virulome analysis of four Staphylococcus epidermidis strains from human skin and platelet concentrates using whole genome sequencing. Access microbiology 6 (4) (2024)
Yuntong Kou, Dilini Kumaran, Anita Howell, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparable bacterial growth in platelet concentrates suspended in plasma and platelet additive solution and improved detection of bacterial contamination using a new generation automated culture system. Transfusion 64 (4) (2024)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Dilini Kumaran, Andrew Cap, Kristin Michelle Cardenas, Marc Cloutier, Justin Ferdin, Ute Gravemann, Patrick Ketter, Patricia Landry, Thea Lu, Truscha Niekerk, Joel Parker, Claudia Renke, Axel Seltsam, Bianca Stafford, Susanne Süssner, Tanja Vollmer, Susann Zilkenat, Carl Peter McDonald, null null
Proliferation of psychrotrophic bacteria in cold-stored platelet concentrates. Vox sanguinis (2024)
Marcel Prax, Carl Peter McDonald, Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding, Marc Cloutier, Ute Gravemann, Anna Grothaus, Oleg Krut, Xoliswa Mpumlwana, Niamh O'Flaherty, Masahiro Satake, Bianca Stafford, Susanne Suessner, Tanja Vollmer, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, null null
Characterization of transfusion-relevant bacteria reference strains in a lyophilized format. Vox sanguinis 119 (8) (2024)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Dilini Kumaran, Andrew Cap, Kristin Michelle Cardenas, Marc Cloutier, Justin Ferdin, Ute Gravemann, Patrick Ketter, Patricia Landry, Thea Lu, Truscha Niekerk, Joel Parker, Claudia Renke, Axel Seltsam, Bianca Stafford, Susanne Süssner, Tanja Vollmer, Susann Zilkenat, Carl Peter McDonald, null null
Proliferation of psychrotrophic bacteria in cold-stored platelet concentrates. Vox sanguinis 119 (7) (2024)
Dilini Kumaran, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Cutibacterium acnes contamination does not enhance the proinflammatory profile of platelet concentrates. Transfusion 64 (8) (2024)
Dilini Kumaran, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Cutibacterium acnes contamination does not enhance the proinflammatory profile of platelet concentrates. Transfusion 64 (8) (2024)
Dilini Kumaran, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Cutibacterium acnes contamination does not enhance the proinflammatory profile of platelet concentrates. Transfusion (2024)
Yuntong Kou, Dilini Kumaran, Anita Howell, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparable bacterial growth in platelet concentrates suspended in plasma and platelet additive solution and improved detection of bacterial contamination using a new generation automated culture system. Transfusion (2024)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Michel-Andres Garcia-Otalora, Carl Peter McDonald, null null
Microbiological environmental contamination in the blood supply chain: An international survey by the bacterial subgroup of the ISBT Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party. Vox sanguinis (2023)
Dilini Kumaran, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Nutrient supplementation of culture media improves the detection of Cutibacterium acnes in platelet components by an automated culture system. Vox sanguinis (2023)
Ralph Vassallo, Hany Kamel, Ruchika Goel, Arwa Z Al-Riyami, Zakariya Al-Muharrmi, Cyril Jacquot, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Aditi Khandelwal, Mindy Goldman, Katie Hands, Lorna McLintock, Heather Mitchell, Silvano Wendel, Patrícia Scuracchio, Roberta Fachini, Sandra M Pettersson, Jesper Bengtsson, Susan R Brailsford, Joanne Tossell, Luiz Amorim, Maria Esther Lopes, Margarida Pêcego, Marc Germain, Christian Renaud, Sarah L Morley, Ronald So, Mary J Townsend, Courtney Hopkins, Lene H Harritshoej, Christian Erikstrup, Iain B Gosbell, Melanie H Levin, Peta M Dennington, Nancy Dunbar
International Forum on Management of Blood Donors with Culture-Positive Platelet Donations: Responses. Vox sanguinis (2023)
Ralph Vassallo, Hany Kamel, Ruchika Goel, Arwa Z Al-Riyami, Zakariya Al Muharrmi, Cyril Jacquot, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Aditi Khandelwal, Mindy Goldman, Katie Hands, Lorna McLintock, Heather Mitchell, Silvano Wendel, Patrícia Scuracchio, Roberta Fachini, Sandra M Pettersson, Jesper Bengtsson, Susan R Brailsford, Joanne Tossell, Luiz Amorim, Maria Esther Lopes, Margarida Pêcego, Marc Germain, Christian Renaud, Sarah L Morley, Ronald So, Mary J Townsend, Courtney Hopkins, Lene H Harritshoej, Christian Erikstrup, Iain B Gosbell, Melanie H Levin, Peta M Dennington, Nancy Dunbar
International Forum on Management of Blood Donors with Culture-Positive Platelet Donations: Summary. Vox sanguinis (2023)
Dilini Kumaran, Carmelie Laflamme, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
A multiphasic approach to solve misidentification of Cutibacterium acnes as Atopobium vaginae during routine bacterial screening of platelet concentrates using the VITEK 2 system. Access microbiology 5 (6) (2023)
Sylvia Ighem Chi, Basit Yousuf, Carina Paredes, Jennifer Bearne, Carl Peter McDonald, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Proof of concept for detection of staphylococcal enterotoxins in platelet concentrates as a novel safety mitigation strategy. Vox sanguinis (2023)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Yuntong Kou, Dilini Kumaran, Brankica Culibrk, Tamiko Stewart, Peter Schubert, Ken McTaggart
Assessment of bacterial growth in leukoreduced cold-stored whole blood supports overnight hold at room temperature prior to filtration: A pilot study. Vox sanguinis 117 (5) (2022)
Michael Schmidt, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Lea Stiller, Carl McDonald, null null
Current status of rapid bacterial detection methods for platelet components: A 20-year review by the ISBT Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party Subgroup on Bacteria. Vox sanguinis 117 (8) (2022)
Hany Kamel, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Carl Peter McDonald, null null
The international experience of bacterial screen testing of platelet components with automated microbial detection systems: An update. Vox sanguinis 117 (5) (2022)
Basit Yousuf, Roya Pasha, Nicolas Pineault, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Contamination of platelet concentrates with Staphylococcus aureus induces significant modulations in platelet functionality. Vox sanguinis 117 (11) (2022)
Carina Paredes, Sylvia Ighem Chi, Annika Flint, Kelly Weedmark, Carl McDonald, Jennifer Bearne, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Franco Pagotto
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus CI/BAC/25/13/W, Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Concentrates in England. Microbiology resource announcements 10 (45) (2021)
Maria Loza-Correa, Basit Yousuf, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Staphylococcus epidermidis undergoes global changes in gene expression during biofilm maturation in platelet concentrates. Transfusion 61 (7) (2021)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Anita Howell, Jennifer Bearne, Varsha Bhakta, Lucy Bower, Rebecca Cardigan, Mélissa Girard, Yuntong Kou, Carl McDonald, Marie-Ève Nolin, Danuta Sawicka, William Sheffield
Challenging the 30-min rule for thawed plasma. Vox sanguinis (2021)
Basit Yousuf, Annika Flint, Kelly Weedmark, Carl McDonald, Jennifer Bearne, Franco Pagotto, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Strain PS/BAC/317/16/W, Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Concentrates in England. Microbiology resource announcements 10 (35) (2021)
Meshari Alabdullatif, Imad Eldin Osman, Mai Alrasheed, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Manal Alyousef, Sahar Althawadi, Hind Alhumiadan
Evaluation of riboflavin and ultraviolet light treatment against Klebsiella pneumoniae in whole blood-derived platelets: A pilot study. Transfusion 61 (5) (2021)
Carina Paredes, Sylvia Ighem Chi, Annika Flint, Kelly Weedmark, Carl McDonald, Jennifer Bearne, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Franco Pagotto
Complete Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus PS/BAC/169/17/W, Isolated from a Contaminated Platelet Concentrate in England. Microbiology resource announcements 10 (45) (2021)
Alexander Diamandas, Roel Mikhail Razon, Ellen Sykes, Ayush Kumar, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Ann Karen C Brassinga
Complete Genome Sequences of Two Distinct Strains of Serratia marcescens Isolated from Contaminated Platelet Concentrates from Canadian Donors. Microbiology resource announcements 9 (41) (2020)
Marcel Prax, Eva Spindler-Raffel, Carl Peter McDonald, Jennifer Bearne, Masahiro Satake, Moe Kozakai, Julieta Rojo, Kay-Martin O Hanschmann, Bernd Lambrecht, Udo Grundmann, Niamh O'Flaherty, Agata Klimek, Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding, Birgit S Gathof, Melanie Störmer, Susanne Süßner, Claudia Renke, Cheuk Kwong Lee, Cornelius Knabbe, Tanja Vollmer, Shawn D Keil, Marley E Shipps, Stephen J Wagner, Ute Jentsch, Xoliswa Mpumlwana, Marc Cloutier, Peter Bringmann, Thea Lu, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Yuntong Kou, Oleg Krut, null null
Establishment of transfusion-relevant bacteria reference strains for red blood cells. Vox sanguinis 116 (6) (2020)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Stephanie Evans, Terri McIntyre, Christopher Pang, Qi-Long Yi, Caesar DiFranco, Mindy Goldman
Extension of platelet shelf life with an improved bacterial testing algorithm. Transfusion 60 (12) (2020)
Maria Loza-Correa, Juan A Ayala, Iris Perelman, Keith Hubbard, Miloslav Kalab, Qi-Long Yi, Mariam Taha, Miguel A de Pedro, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
The peptidoglycan and biofilm matrix of Staphylococcus epidermidis undergo structural changes when exposed to human platelets. PloS one 14 (1) (2019)
Steven J Drews, Peter Lesley, Michael E Detsky, Lanis Distefano, Cesario Ilagan, Sangeeta Mehta, Allison McGeer, Nadine Shehata, Robert Skeate, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
A suspected septic transfusion reaction associated with posttransfusion contamination of a platelet pool by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Transfusion 60 (2) (2019)
Mariam Taha, Dana Kyluik-Price, Dilini Kumaran, Mark D Scott, Wendy Toyofuku, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Bacterial survival in whole blood depends on plasma sensitivity and resistance to neutrophil killing. Transfusion 59 (12) (2019)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Yuntong Kou, Marie-Pierre Cayer, Marie-Joëlle De Grandmont, Mélissa Girard, Marc Cloutier
The impact of red blood cell manufacturing variables on bacterial growth dynamics: a pilot study. Vox sanguinis 114 (5) (2019)
Meshari Alabdullatif, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Biofilm-associated accumulation-associated protein (Aap): A contributing factor to the predominant growth of Staphylococcus epidermidis in platelet concentrates. Vox sanguinis 114 (1) (2018)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, C Jenkins, W P Sheffield
Bacteria can proliferate in thawed cryoprecipitate stored at room temperature for longer than 4 h. Vox sanguinis 112 (5) (2017)
M Loza-Correa, M Kalab, Q-L Yi, L J Eltringham-Smith, W P Sheffield, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Comparison of bacterial attachment to platelet bags with and without preconditioning with plasma. Vox sanguinis 112 (5) (2017)
M Taha, B Culibrk, M Kalab, P Schubert, Q-L Yi, R Goodrich, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos
Efficiency of riboflavin and ultraviolet light treatment against high levels of biofilm-derived Staphylococcus epidermidis in buffy coat platelet concentrates. Vox sanguinis 112 (5) (2017)
E Spindler-Raffel, R J Benjamin, C P McDonald, Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, K Aplin, I Bekeredjian-Ding, D de Korte, C Gabriel, B Gathof, K-M Hanschmann, K Hourfar, C Ingram, M R Jacobs, S D Keil, Y Kou, B Lambrecht, J Marcelis, Z Mukhtar, H Nagumo, T Niekerk, J Rojo, S Marschner, M Satake, A Seltsam, E Seifried, S Sharafat, M Störmer, S Süßner, S J Wagner, R Yomtovian, null null
Enlargement of the WHO international repository for platelet transfusion-relevant bacteria reference strains. Vox sanguinis 112 (8) (2017)
Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Denese C Marks, Jason P Acker, William P Sheffield
Quality and Safety of Blood Products. Journal of blood transfusion 2016 (2016)