R. Hentschel et al., INTACT SURVIVAL WITH TRANSFUSION-ASSOCIATED GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASEPROVED BY HUMAN-LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN TYPING OF LYMPHOCYTES IN SKIN BIOPSY SPECIMENS, The Journal of pediatrics, 126(1), 1995, pp. 61-64
A transient transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease occurred
in a premature infant of 30 weeks of gestation, We demonstrated donor
lymphocytes in a skin biopsy specimen with a two-step immunoperoxidase
technique using monoclonal antibodies against human leukocyte antigen
determinants specific for the donor, The girl survived and is immunoc
ompetent,