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That's basically what we did! All my cells were reactive which made me think it was something in the reagent causing a reaction (plus the negative results with another manufacturer). As for antibiotics I am not 100% sure, patient came in with a fracture. A third sample was sent out along with an aliquot of our screen cells for the blood center to test with, and I came in this morning to a report with an anti-Bg and unknown IgG reacting antibody though. But thank you for the info! Glad to know it isn't a totally unusual circumstance!

Hello! We had a patient this morning have a positive antibody screen, so we sent her off for antibody ID which came back negative. I repeated the screen from the original sample and obtained the same results, had the patient redrawn and again same results. We use quotient screen cells, where as our blood center uses ortho. Has anyone come across a case where a patient has an antibody to the reagent? Was this proven in anyway? Patient has an order for 2 units of blood but with no specific antibody available to screen for, I am stumped as to how to call it a compatible crossmatch if we don't know what is causing the positive reactions. Thank you!