BD FACSLyric Flow Cytometer, 2-Laser 4 Color Instrument, REF: 662875, when using BD Trucount Tubes

Reason: Flow cytometers, when used with specific tubes may experience excessive electronic abort counts (electronic abort count of beads exceeds 1.0% of the total processed events), which may affect the ratio of cell population events to bead events, potentially resulting in falsely high absolute counts. This may affect the following: initiation of prophylactic therapy for Opportunistic Infections (HIV patients), decisions regarding care/management (PID/immune suppressed patients), laboratory developed tests/experiments, specimen engraftment potency, and use of leucoreduced blood products for transfusion.

Code information: BD FACSLyric Flow Cytometer serial numbers: Z662875000001, Z662875000007, Z662875000008, Z662875000009, Z662875000011, Z662875000012, Z662875000013, Z662875000014, Z662875000015, Z662875000016, Z662875000017, Z662875000018.

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