Antiglobulin test
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- Du phenotyping by the rosette technique when the direct antiglobulin test is positive.
- The direct antiglobulin test is frequently positive in chronic myeloid leukemia patients treated with interferon-alpha.
- In addition to being a medical test that is ordered by a physician, the antiglobulin test is a procedure employed in various blood banking and immunology methods in order to detect immune complex formation.
- A direct antiglobulin test is used to detect the presence of antibody against red blood cells when the anti-erythrocyte concentration is too low to cause spontaneous autoagglutination.
- The direct antiglobulin test is widely used in the blood bank laboratory to detect antibodies that are attached in vivo (in the body) to the patients red blood cells (RBCs).
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