The Coombs antiglobulin test has surely proved of immense importance in detecting antibody globulin on the surface of the red cell, as in isoimmune and autoimmune hemolytic anemia, as well as in cross ...

THE risk of isoimmunization after blood transfusion depends on the relative frequency of blood-group factors, their antigenicity and the number and timing of exposures (transfusions). There have been ...

A number of factors, including older age, higher platelet count, and lack of a viral trigger, have been implicated in the risk for developing chronic ITP. The predictive value of a direct antiglobulin ...

THE antiglobulin test of Coombs, Mourant and Race is already widely employed in routine practice, and many laboratories are producing for themselves antiglobulin sera. Rabbits were commonly immunized ...