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It has been shown that the risk of receiving a bacterially contaminated platelet unit is about 1 in 1,500 without bacterial contamination testing. During an average treatment cycle, six units are transfused, so the average risk of receiving a contaminated unit during a treatment cycle is 1 in 250 (Kleinman et al. Transfusion 2013).