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Hemagglutinins
| Medical Definition: | Agents that cause agglutination of red blood cells. They include antibodies, blood group antigens, lectins, autoimmune factors, bacterial, viral, or parasitic blood agglutinins, etc. |
| Guide Notes: | restrict to erythrocytes: leukoagglutinins are indexed under AGGLUTININS (IM) + LEUKOCYTES or specific with /immunol (IM) |
| Also Called: | Exohemagglutinins,Isohemagglutinins |
| Previously Indexed: | Antibodies (1966-1974) |
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Hemagglutinins, Viral |
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