Applications of Molecular Biology to Blood Transfusion Medicine

Structural aspects of blood group antigens; toward an understanding of the red cell surface; the molecular revolution in histocompatibility testing - relevance to blood and marrow transplantation; new approaches for monoclonal anitbody production; prenatal blood grouping using the polymerase chain reaction; evolving applications of nucleic acid amplification assays for prevention of virus transmission by blood components and derivatives.