From Malaria to Chemokine Receptor: The Emerging Physiologic Role of the Duffy Blood Group Antigen

Abstract

ONE OF THE MOST notable achievements of biomedical research in the first half of this century was the identification of red blood cell (RBC) antigens and the recognition of their importance to transfusion medicine and hemolytic disease of the newborn.[1][1] [2][2] These discoveries gave rise to an