PMID: 6412981Jan 1, 1983Paper

Blood group antigens may be the receptors for immunoallergic drug complexes reacting with erythrocytes

Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des sciences. Série III, Sciences de la vie
B Habibi, Y Bretagne

Abstract

19 antibodies specific for 11 different drugs were extensively tested in the presence of the drug against a panel of red cells including common and public minus phenotypes. High incidence blood group antigens were shown to be specific receptors for several drug-antibody complexes proving thereby that red blood cells play more than an "innocent bystander" role in drug induced immune hemolytic anemias.

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