by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary ISBT International Society of Blood Transfusion, a Netherlands-based international blood banking organization whose mission is “Facilitating knowledge about transfusion medicine to serve the interests of donors and patients.” ISBT serves the...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Malaria A very important and deadly parasitic infection seen in many countries around the world, caused by one of the following species of Plasmodium: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and in a few areas, P. knowlesi. Malaria has huge public...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Minipool A minipool is composed of samples from multiple blood donors and “pooling” them together in order to test multiple donors at the same time. This process is used in blood donor nucleic acid testing (NAT) for transfusion-transmitted...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Serum Grouping Serum grouping is one of the two required phases in determining the ABO type of an adult before transfusion. It is the currently favored term (at least, according to the AABB Technical Manual) for the process of confirming a person’s ABO...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 22, 2016
Glossary Weak D Phenotype The main Rh antigen (the one that determines whether a person is “Rh-positive” or “Rh-negative”) is known to blood bankers as the “D” antigen. Most D-positive (“Rh-positive”) people express the...
