Tsu d (ref. 1) is an alloantigen on mouse suppressor T cells, coded for by a gene downstream
from the immunoglobulin locus on chromosome 12 2 . We now report a second T-cell …

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is an autoimmune disease characterized by isolated low
platelet counts often leading to mucocutaneous bleeding. Administration of rituximab was …

Gwendoline Spurll path walked, and the pack, representing the burden, were left behind (“View
from Above”). What I ended up with over the next weeks was a series of paintings …

The simultaneous occurrence of sarcomas in a husband and wife is documented. The wife
first presented with an undifferentiated uterine sarcoma, and within six months of the onset of …

A young homosexual man with immune thrombocytopenia recently had transient intravascular
hemolysis during intravenous gamma globulin treatment. The hemolysis, manifested by a …

BACKGROUND: Since March 1990, all blood donations in Canada are screened for antibodies
to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Because HCV may cause chronic asymptomatic hepatitis, in …

OBJECTIVE: Critically ill neonates frequently require multiple small volume red blood cell (RBC)
transfusions. RBC units assigned to individual infants, used sequentially in small …

Hepatitis C was responsible for the majority of cases of posttransfusion hepatitis before the
introduction of a specific screening test for blood donors. Infected recipients may remain …

Tthyd is an alloantigen coded for by a gene(s) near the immunoglobulin locus on chromosome
12 in the mouse. This T cell-specific antigen may be the third member of a family of …

North America and Northem Europe, the seroprevalence rate of HCV in the general population
is 1% to 2%. 1-3 Although most acute infections are asymptomatic, chronic hepatitis …