[Quality control: sensitivity of the indirect antiglobulin test by filtration]

L Mannessier1, P Y Le Pennec,

  • 1EFS Nord de France, site de Lille, 21, rue Camille-Guérin, BP 2018, 59012 Lille cedex, France. lucienne.mannessier@efs.sante.fr

For ten years, the working party of immunohaematology of the French Society of Blood Transfusion organizes a quality control. After the modification of the law about the realization of erythrocyte typing and detection of unexpected red cell allo-antibodies, the quality control was performed in order to determine the sensitivity of the indirect antiglobulin test by filtration with a standard anti-RH1(D) produces by the National Reference Center of Blood Groups.