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The ABO blood group system is the most important blood group system in clinical transfusion. Serological technology is a routine method for the identification of ABO blood groups, however, which have some limitations in the identification of complicated ABO samples with weakened antigens or antibodies, abnormal plasma proteins, polyagglutination, or cold agglutinin, etc. With the development of molecular biology technology, ABO blood group gene was cloned, and ABO blood group genotyping technology based on DNA was established. The genotyping technologies with different throughputs such as PCR-SSP, Droplet-AS-PCR, PCR-RFLP, PCR-SBT, SNaPshot, MALDI-TOF MS and NGS have emerged. Genotyping has overcome the limitations of serology, and has become an indispensable method to solve difficult blood type, providing strong support for the correct identification of ABO blood group, and providing guarantee for precision blood transfusion. This review summarizes the progress and application of ABO blood group genotyping methods.
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Humans , ABO Blood-Group System/genetics , Blood Grouping and Crossmatching , Genotype , Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods , TechnologyABSTRACT
【Objective】 To investigate the effect of cold agglutination on blood group typing. 【Methods】 37℃ water bath, absorption elution test and 2-mercaptoethanol method were used to eliminate the influence of cold agglutination. Forward and reverse blood group typing, cross matching, DAT and IAT experiments were then performed on red blood cells and serum after treatment. 【Results】 Before treatment, obvious discrepancy in forward /reverse typing and nontypable cross matching in 16 blood samples were noticed due to cold agglutination. After corresponding treatments, all samples were consistent or negative in forward/reverse typing, cross matching and antibody screening. No adverse reactions to cross matching blood transfusion occurred in patients, and the increase of hemoglobin was in line with the effective standard of transfusion. 【Conclusion】 37℃ water bath, absorption elution test and 2-mercaptoethanol method can be used to eliminate the interference caused by cold agglutination to obtain correct typing results. The strong reactivity caused by cold agglutination in AIHA patients were different from other cases, which deserved our attention.
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BACKGROUND: The ABO blood group typing test (ABO test) is an initial pre-transfusion test based on hemagglutination. Although various factors affect hemagglutination strength, few studies have examined how these factors can be applied in clinical laboratories and their effects on hemagglutination. This study was conducted to analyze the factors affecting hemagglutination strength in the ABO test using a tube method applied in many laboratories. METHODS: We conducted a detailed questionnaire survey of 51 laboratories which use the ABO test with a tube method. We also analyzed the results of the ABO test (cell and serum typing) with 40 specimens using factors affecting hemagglutination at a tube method and applied differently in each laboratory. RESULTS: Each laboratory used various methods to prepare red cell suspensions as specimens or reagents and used different reagent to sample ratios, centrifugation protocols, and shaking test tubes before evaluating hemagglutination strength. By testing various combinations of these factors, direct sampling from the red cell layer of the original specimen was found to have the largest effect on lowering hemagglutination strength in cell typing tests. In serum typing tests, various factors influenced hemagglutination strength, including shaking the tube before analysis and the concentration of a home-made red cell suspension used as a reagent. CONCLUSIONS: To achieve accurate results in the ABO test by the tube method, detailed guidelines that include the factors affecting hemagglutination strength determined in this study should be established.
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Centrifugation , Hemagglutination , Indicators and Reagents , Methods , SuspensionsABSTRACT
The present paper is the result of frequency of occurrence of ABO blood group carried out in Sagar (M.P.). The frequency of B blood group is highest with percentile frequency of 0.361 and lowest AB blood group with percentile frequency of 0.095. The x2 test as well as D/o show significant values.
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Objective Establishing a trapezoid micro-plate method to detect ABO blood group in serum.Methods Select 32 blood samples containing A,B,O or AB types randomly.Use orthogonal design principle to select the optimum conditions of the blood plasma dilution,erythrocytes density,temperature and static time.The mix-blood samples are serially diluted.The agglutinating and nonagglutinating gray zones are also defined.Based on the optimum conditions and criterions,the reproducibility test,sensitiveness test,accuracy test,lipaemia interference test and haemolysis interference test are carried out.6 ABO subgroup(AM,AX,A2B,A3B,AXB,BM) and 5 irregular antibody(anti-M,anti-N,anti-P1,anti-Leb,anti-HI) are detected to evaluate the ability of the trapezoid micro-plate method to detect special samples.Results The trapezoid micro-plate method's repetitiveness tests coincidence is 100%.Its sensitivity is identical to the test tube method.The accuracy is 99.99%.In the 47 various kinds of lipaemia blood samples' anti-interference tests,the correct interpretation at one time is 100%.In the haemolysis interference tests,when hemoglobin content are below 20g/L,there are no obvious influences found.When sever haemolysis appears(blood plasma hemoglobin content are above 20g/L),there is no effect on the agglutination,but make a difference to the nonagglutinating.The ability to dectect 6 ABO blood subgroups and 5 irregular antibody blood samples is great.Conclusion The trapezoid micro-plate method not only has good ability to detect the ABO blood group both in the red cell typing and serum typing,but also enhances the accuracy in detecting the agglutinating blood samples and improves the exactitude of the tests.