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IN a recent communication in Nature, Basil-Jones, Sanger and Walsh1 described a case of puerperal pyæmia the red cells of which (Group O) were agglutinated at 20° C. but not at 37° C. by 45 out of 45 normal sera of all groups. The peculiar behaviour of these red cells appeared to be similar to that described by Levine and Katzin2 and Gaffney and Sachs3. The latter authors described their phenomenon as âpolyagglutinabilityâ of red cells.
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Basil-Jones, B., Sanger, R. A., and Walsh, R. J., Nature, 157, 802 (1946).
Levine, P., and Katzin, E. M., Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. and Med., 39, 167 (1938).
Gaffney, J. C., and Sachs, H., J. Path. and Bact., 55, 489 (1943).
Friedenreich, V., "The Thomsen Hæmagglutination Phenomenon" (Copenhagen, 1930).
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BOORMAN, K., LOUTIT, J. & STEABBEN, D. Poly-agglutinable Red Cells. Nature 158, 446–447 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158446c0
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