Article
Acquisition of K:1-like antigen during terminal sepsis.
Transfusion - 1 Jan 2000
McGinniss M H, MacLowry J D, Holland P V
Abstract excerpt
This report describes a patient whose own and transfused K:-1 red cell populations became strongly K:1 during a terminal episode of sepsis due to a group D streptococcus organism, Streptococcus faecium. Subsequent in vitro studies using normal K:-1 red cells inoculated with that organism showed t...
Topics
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Blood Group Antigens
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Humans
- Kell Blood-Group System
- Kidd Blood-Group System
- Male
- Phenotype
- Shock, Septic
- Streptococcal Infections