Publications by authors named "Moira Keogh"
Objectives: This study aimed to capture a snapshot of the Irish population to determine if there had been any changes in the ABO and RH blood group system (BGS) distribution from previous Irish studies and to establish an Irish JK BGS frequency, providing real time donor information to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS).
Background: Ireland's population is constantly increasing and becoming more diverse, this has potential implications for the IBTS to provide blood with extended phenotypes for certain cohorts of patients.
Materials And Methods: All first time blood donors had relevant testing performed in the Automated Donor Grouping (ADG) laboratory using the Beckman Coulter PK7300 analyzer with appropriate antisera by validated methods.