Neonatal alloimmunization: A rare case of multiple alloantibody formation in a patient with disseminated histoplasmosis

Transfusion

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1140-1141

  Hata, Jessica L ^a   Johnson, Mary S ^a   Booth, Garrett S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; COOMBS TEST; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; LETTER; PANCYTOPENIA; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; INFANT; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDD BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 84877697494     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/trf.12132     Document Type: Letter

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