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IN the past eight years, 132 cases of hydatid disease have been treated in the Auckland Group of Hospitals. Among these patients, two were found to have strong anti-P agglutinins in their sera. These were recognized in the course of cross-matching blood for transfusion. About ninety of these cases had blood cross-matched, and of these only 25 per cent could be expected to be P-negative and able to have anti-P agglutinins in their sera. It seemed that this was a selected group presenting a high proportion of unusually strong anti-P sera. Merritt and Hardy1 reported a serum containing strong anti-P in a boy aged twelve years with hydatid disease.
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CAMERON, G., STAVELEY, J. Blood Group P Substance in Hydatid Cyst Fluids. Nature 179, 147–148 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179147a0
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