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Relation between Blood Groups and Resistance to Infection with Influenza and some Picornaviruses

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SPECIFIC immunity, especially that conferred by antibody on the respiratory mucosa, is probably the most important factor in resistance to infection with respiratory viruses1–3. But McDonald and Zuckermann4 have shown that in the first wave of Asian influenza relatively more RAF men admitted to hospital with this infection were of blood group O than of blood group A.

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    D. A. J. TYRRELL, P. SPARROW & A. S. BEARE

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TYRRELL, D., SPARROW, P. & BEARE, A. Relation between Blood Groups and Resistance to Infection with Influenza and some Picornaviruses. Nature 220, 819–820 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220819a0

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