Severe neonatal neutropenia due to anti-human leucocyte antigen B49 alloimmunization only: A case report

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 233-237

  Tomičić, Maja ^a,d   Starcevic M ^b   Bux, J ^c   Zach, V ^b   Hundric Haspl Z ^a   Drazic V ^a   Grahovac, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^c Swiss Red Cross   (Switzerland)

^d CROATIAN INSTITUTE OF TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Alloimmunization; HLA; HNA; Neonate; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; DNA; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALLOIMMUNE NEONATAL NEUTROPENIA; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRANULOCYTES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEUTROPENIA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0042196348     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2003.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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