Blood group serology

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Blood group serology

Kathleen E. Boorman, Barbara E. Dodd, P.J. Lincoln

Churchill Livingstone, 1988

6th ed

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

This sixth edition is produced in response to medical advances which have both increased the need for blood donations and changed the complexion of serological and blood transfusion laboratories.

Table of Contents

  • Useful phenotype frequencies in the Western European population
  • some gene frequencies for Western Europeans. An introduction to blood groups
  • immunological aspects of blood groups
  • the ABO system
  • some aspects of of ABO and the Lewis system
  • the Rh blood group system
  • an expanded account of the Rh system
  • other blood group systems
  • identification of antibodies and mixtures of antibodies
  • serum allotypes
  • the choice of blood for transfusion and cross matching tests
  • the investigation of haemolytic transfusion reactions
  • other haemolytic diseases, particularly autoimmune haemolytic anaemia (AIHA)
  • blood groups applied to doubtful parentage and the identification of stains. Appendices: the serological laboratory
  • microplate technology
  • reagents
  • selection and preparation of typing sera
  • gene frequencies.

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