Comparison of the performance of four microtube column agglutination systems in the detection of red cell alloantibodies

Transfusion

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1045-1050

  Weisbach, Volker ^a,b   Ziener, A ^a   Zimmermann, R ^a   Glaser, A ^a   Zingsem, J ^a   Eckstein, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIC STRENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ERYTHROCYTES; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TITRIMETRY;

EID: 0032849484     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1999.39101045.x     Document Type: Article

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