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FOLLOWING the hearing of evidence from inter-JP ested persons, W. B. Castle, M. W. Wintrobe and L. H. Snyder have reported1 to the Surgeon-General of the U.S. Public Health Service on the nomenclature of the anti-Rh typing sera. The report traces the history of Rh nomenclature, summarizes the evidence for and against Wiener‘s and Fisher‘s nomenclature respectively, and recommends that the Wiener nomenclature shall appear first on the label of serum containers, followed by the Fisher terminology in parentheses, thus : "Anti-Rh0 (Anti-D)".
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Castle, W. B., Wintrobe, M. W., and Snyder, L. H., Science, 107, 27 (1948).
Fisher, R. A., personal communication cited by Eace, R. R., Nature 153, 771 (1944).
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MOURANT, A. Rh Nomenclature. Nature 161, 492–493 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161492b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161492b0