OBJECTIVES To design and implement an HIV surveillance system using periodic cross sectional prevalence surveys in National Guard recruits of the Republic of Cyprus. METHODS HIV infection surveillance used unlinked anonymous screening (UAS) methodology, which tested residual blood originally collected for other purposes. Residual blood from samples collected for ABO blood group typing at inta...

The problem of the relation between blood groups and disease has been the subject of many investigations. An important paper appeared as early as 46 years ago (Buchanan and Higley, 1921). Specific studies about blood groups and leprosy also date back to the twenties (Puente, 1927-28 and others). Since that time the relation between the ABO blood groups and this disease has been tested in differ...

The frequencies of ABO and rhesus blood groups vary from one population to another. We studied blood group distribution in 120 Nepalese students; 34% were blood group A, 29% group B, 4% group AB and 32.5% group O. The frequency of Rh-negative blood was 3.33% and Rh-positive 96.66%.

Serum and salivary protein and immunoglobulin concentrations have been measured in people of different ABO blood groups and secretor status. The results have confirmed that salivary protein concentrations vary markedly according to an individual's blood group tending to be particularly high in people of group A, but have failed to show any parallel variation in serum protein concentrations. No ...

We demonstrated in this study that blood group O subjects attracted more Aedes albopictus than other blood groups (B, AB, and A) but were only significantly more attractive than blood group A subjects in 64 human landing tests. We collected saliva from the subjects and tested it for agglutination inhibition, categorized the subjects into secretors or nonsecretors, and studied mosquitoes' landin...

Seven kinds of hypervariable DNA probes, which recognize hypervariable loci, were applied for individual identification of human bloodstains. Allelic frequencies and their confidence intervals among unrelated Japanese individuals were previously reported from our laboratory, and codominant segregation of the polymorphism was confirmed in family studies. One-month-old bloodstains from ten indivi...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate an association previously reported in a retrospective study between the A phenotype and social classes I and II. DESIGN The study was a prospective survey using a cohort of blood donors. SETTING Participants were donors at a regional blood bank in southern Ireland servicing a population of approximately 380,000. PARTICIPANTS Of 2442 ...