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Each group can be either RhD positive or RhD negative.

ANTIGENS AND ANTIBODIES


Your blood group is identified by antigens and antibodies present in the blood. Antigens and antibodies are your blood's natural defences against foreign substances. Antigens are protein molecules found on the surface of red blood cells. Antibodies are found in plasma. Antibodies recognise anything foreign in your body and alert your immune system so that it can destroy it. Red blood cells sometimes have another antigen, a protein known as the RhD antigen. If this is present, your blood group is RhD positive. If it is absent, your blood group is RhD negative.

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BLOOD TRANSFUSION
You can always give A blood to persons with blood group A, B blood to a person with blood group B and so on. But in some cases you can receive blood with another type of blood group, or donate blood to a person with another kind of blood group. People with blood group 0 Rh Negative are called "universal donors" and people with blood group AB Rh Positive are called "universal receivers." Rh Positive blood can never be given to someone with Rh Negative blood, but the other way around works.

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