Association of white cell and red cell antibodies in human sera

Abstract

SYNOPSIS Five hundred and eighteen human sera containing known red cell antibodies were tested for lymphocytotoxic antibodies and 81 sera were found to contain them. Thirty-nine antibodies were fully characterized. The frequencies of anti-I, K, Vw, and Wra were significantly greater in those of the 518 sera which also contained white cell antibodies.Four hundred and ninety-four of the 518 sera containing red cell antibodies contained anti-Rh (Boyum, 1968), the concentration being adjusted to 1 x 106 cells/ml.