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A Person with Type B- Blood Receives a Transfusion of Type

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A person with type B- blood receives a transfusion of type O+ blood. It is his very first blood transfusion. Will there be a transfusion reaction? Why or why not?


A) Yes: the recipient must receive blood of the same type as his or her own.
B) Yes: the anti-A antibodies of the recipient will clump and hemolyze the donated blood.
C) Yes: the recipient has anti-Rh antibodies which will clump and hemolyze the donated blood.
D) No: the recipient has no antibodies to the Rh factor because this is his first transfusion.

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