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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Synonyms and keywords: Rh (D) disease; rhesus disease

References

David R. Zimmerman, Rh: The Intimate History of a Disease and Its Conquest Macmillan (1973) ISBN 0-02-633530-1.
Landsteiner K and Weiner A (1940). An agglutinable factor in human blood recognized by immune sera for rhesus blood. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 43,223.

Levine P, Katzin E and Burnham L (1941). Isoimmunization in pregnancy: its possible bearing on the aetiology of erythroblastosis fetalis. Journal of the American Medical Association, 116, 825-7

Clarke C, Donohoe W, McConnell R, Woodrow J, Finn R, Krevans J et al (1963) Further experimental studies in the prevention of Rh-haemolytic disease. BMJ 979-984

Freda V, Gorman j, and Pollack W (1964) Successful prevention of experimental Rh sensitization in man with an anti-Rh Gamma 2-globulin antibody preparation: a preliminary report. Transfusion, 4, 26-32

Wallerstein H (1946). Treatment of severe erythroblastosis by simultaneous removal and replacement of blood of the newborn. Science, 103, 583-4

Harman C, Bowmanj, Menticoglou S and ManningF (1988). Profound fetal thrombocytopenia in Rhesus diseas: Serious hazard at intravascular transfusion. Lancet 2,741-2

Clarke CA, Whitfield AGW and Mollison PL (1987) Deaths from Rh haemolytic disease in England and Wales in 1984 and 1985. BMJ 294, 1001

Levine P and Stetson R E: Intra-group agglutination. J Am Med Assoc, 113: 126,1939