Papua and New Guinea medical journal
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Samples of serum from 322 group O donors taken at random at Port Moresby, were examined within 24 hours of collection of blood by a simple screening test for haemolysins; 101 (35.31%) of 286 Papua New Guinean (PNG) group O sera and 16 (44.44%) of 36 European sera containing either anti-A or anti-B haemolysins. There were no differences in the extent to which A or B cells from Europeans or Papua New Guineans were lysed by these sera.
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A case of Glanzmann's thrombasthenia is documented in a Melanesian child, and the diagnosis and treatment of this disorder are discussed. This is the third inherited bleeding disorder to be reported in Papua New Guinea, haemophilia A (Factor VIII deficiency) and Factor XIII deficiency having been described previously.