Donath-Landsteiner test

(do´nath land´sti-nәr) a test for paroxysmal hemoglobinuria based on the fact that the blood of patients with this disease contains isohemolysin and autohemolysin that unites with erythrocytes only at low temperatures (2° to 10° C), hemolysis occurring only after warming with the complement to 37° C.

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