You want to determine a patient's blood type so you mix drops of the patient's blood with anti-A, anti-B, and anti-Rh antisera. You see agglutination with both the anti-A and anti-B antisera but no agglutination with the anti-Rh antiserum. What is the patient's blood type?
The patient's blood group is AB(-) negative.
The blood type AB has both A and B surface antigen and lack both anti-A and anti-B antibodies. When the anti A antibodies from the antisera come in contact with A antigen on the erythrocytes the cause agglutination (clumping) and same is with B antigen.
Anti Rh sera is used in detecting whether the presence of Rh protein or not. This protein is derived from rhesus monkey. No agglutination with anti Rh means absence of Rh protein.
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