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Income Taxes	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2019
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Income Taxes	Note 9. Income Taxes The Company recorded income tax expense of $0.1 million for both the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, and income tax expense of $0.2 million for both the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, primarily related to the operating profit of the Company’s Cerus Europe B.V. subsidiary.

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The entire disclosure for income taxes. Disclosures may include net deferred tax liability or asset recognized in an enterprise's statement of financial position, net change during the year in the total valuation allowance, approximate tax effect of each type of temporary difference and carryforward that gives rise to a significant portion of deferred tax liabilities and deferred tax assets, utilization of a tax carryback, and tax uncertainties information.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2144680

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