Case Report Mrs. Vail is group 0, Rh-negative, Duffy-negative; her husband, group 0, Rh-negative, Duffy-positive. Mr. Vall is 0; MsNs; P+; cdE.cde; kk; Fy(a+); Le(a-). Mrs. Vall is 0; NsNs; P+; cde.cde; Kk; Fy(a-); Le(a-); Jk(a+). Baby is 0; NsNs; P+; cde.cde; kk; Fy(a+); Le(a-). Mrs. Vail's pregnancy record is as follows: (1) In 1949, normal. The mother was transfused immediately following thi...

In this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii antibodies and identify risk factors associated with this infection in sheep from the southern region of Bahia state. Between February and December 2010, 795 sheep from 31 farms located in nine municipalities were tested. We found seroprevalence of 30.2% (240/795), with titers of 64 (38.3%), 256 (34.2%), 1,024 (18.3%), and...

BACKGROUND Nonexercise models were developed to predict maximal oxygen consumption (VO2(max)). While these models are accurate, they don't consider smoking, which negatively impacts measured VO2(max). The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of smoking on both measured and predicted VO2(max). METHODS Indirect calorimetry was used to measure VO2(max) in 2,749 men and women. Physica...

INTRODUCTION Since there is scarce data available on incidence and type of irregular antibodies in patients and donors in India, a study was undertaken to find the incidence of irregular antibodies in patients and irregular antibodies and a positive Direct Antiglobulin Test (DAT) in blood donors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Antibody screening was performed using commercial pooled "O" cells and thre...

HYSIOLOGICAL STUDY of man's food needs and capacity for physical work began on a systematic basis about seventy years ago. Following upon Atwater's classic experiments with a human calorimeter at the end of the last century, the validity of using rates of oxygen consumption as the basis for measuring energy expenditure (indirect calorimetry) was firmly established. Throughout this early period ...

Methods. Various laboratory tests were implemented in our lab, as screening or confirmatory tests, some in studies some as a routine diagnostic test, such are: Agglutinations tests: Rose Bengal test (RBT), Slide Agglutinations test, Standard tube test (SAT), Wright test, Antihuman globulin test (Coombs); 2-Mercaptoethanol test (2 ME); Complement fixation test (CFT); Indirect enzyme immunoassay ...

A 32 year old Indian female was referred to our hospital at 32 weeks of gestation because of difficulty in blood group determination and further antenatal care. The results of cell and serum grouping of her blood sample were suggestive of Bombay (O(h)) Rh (D) negative phenotype. An indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) using a pool of red cells from two Bombay Rh (D) positive blood donors gave negat...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the analysis was to examine the epidemiological aspects of maternal alloimmunization and to determine the most common antibody specificities resulting in hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). MATERIALS AND METHODS The retrospective epidemiological study encompasses all pregnant women who underwent immunohematological screening and the newborn treated for HDN in...

INTRODUCTION Hemolytic disease of the newborn was first described in the medical literature 1609, when it was diagnosed in one French housewife. In 1932 Diamond and colleagues described the mutual relationship of fetal hydrops, jaundice, anemia and erythoblastosis, which was later called fetal erytroblastosis. Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) in the strict sense is considered disease whos...