Red blood cell alloantibody frequency, specificity, and properties in a population of male military veterans

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2069-2076

  Tormey, Christopher A ^a   Fisk, John ^b   Stack, Gary ^b  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; ERYTHROCYTE ANTIBODY; RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; SEROLOGY; VETERAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 52949119133     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01815.x     Document Type: Article

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