Effect of preheating at 40℃ for 15 minutes to high-titer cold agglutinins on complete blood count
Hongxiang Xie
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China
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Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China
Search for more papers by this authorWeina Su
Shandong Normal University Campus Hospital, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Wanju Xu
Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China
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Wanju Xu, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, 16766 Jingshi Road, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorHongxiang Xie
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Affiliated People's Hospital, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China
Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China
Search for more papers by this authorShiyu Lv
Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China
Search for more papers by this authorWeina Su
Shandong Normal University Campus Hospital, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Wanju Xu
Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, China
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Wanju Xu, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, 16766 Jingshi Road, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China.
Email: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorHongxiang Xie, Shiyu Lv and Weina Su contributed equally to this work.

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