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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · J Lab Physicians 2017; 9(02): 148
DOI: 10.4103/0974-2727.199629
Letter to the Editor

The feeble antigen “Weak D”: Prevalence in a tertiary care hospital blood bank in Mumbai

Heena Maulek Desai
Department of Pathology, TN Medical College and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
,
Gayathri Prashant Amonkar
Department of Pathology, TN Medical College and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
,
Sushama Chandekar
Department of Pathology, TN Medical College and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
,
Nitin Valvi
Department of Pathology, TN Medical College and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
,
Gururaj Puranik
Department of Pathology, TN Medical College and BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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