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Clinical investigation of posttransfusion Kidd blood group typing using a rapid normalized quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
Transfusion - 1 May 2004
Montalvo Lani, Walker Phyllis, Wen Li, Lim Wilfredo, Reed William, Busch Michael P, Lee Tzong-Hae
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Accurate typing of a patient's RBCs in the setting of prior transfusion or a hemolytic transfusion reaction is crucial in the selection of compatible blood but is time consuming, technically difficult, and sometimes impossible. To address this problem, a simple, rapid, and inexpensive quantitative PCR method was developed to identify the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the Kidd blood group. We...
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