Passively acquired treponemal antibody from intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in a pregnant patient

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1237-1238

  Rossi, Karen Q ^a   Nickel, James R ^b   Wissel, Mary E ^c   O'Shaughnessy, Richard W ^a,d  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Grifols SA   (United States)

^c AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^d 549 Means Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; TREPONEMA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLOIMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PREGNANCY; REAGIN TEST; SYPHILIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA;

EID: 0346187004     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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