Screening donors for rare antigen constellations

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 199-203

  Wagner, Franz F ^a  

^a DRK Blutspendedienst NSTOB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cartwright blood group system; Colton blood group system; Dombrock blood group; Genotyping; High throughput donor testing; Kell blood group system; Kpb; Lutheran blood group system; PCR RFLP; PCR SSP; Rare blood donor

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ENZYME;

BLOOD DONOR; DIGESTION; HUMAN; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE SPECIFIC PRIMING;

EID: 67650236544     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000218110     Document Type: Review

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