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MANY workers have shown similarities between blood group substances and a variety of bacterial and non-bacterial antigens. Illchmann-Christ and Nagel1 found that anti-A antibody was removed from B and O sera by Staphylococci and reasoned that Staphylococci possessed an A-like receptor. This suggests that persons of blood group A may have an increased susceptibility to staphylococcal infection due to an inability to elaborate an antibody which may cross-react with their own red blood cells.
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Illchmann-Christ, A., and Nagel, V., Z. Immunol. Forsch., 111, 307 (1954).
Anderson, K. F., Coulter, J. R., and Keynes, D. Ruth, J. Hyg. (Camb.), 59, 15 (1961).
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COULTER, J. Staphylococcal Infection and Blood Groups. Nature 195, 301 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195301b0
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