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Apart from suffering from recurrent and prolonged infections, Marie Curie also experienced the following signs and symptoms: fatigue, rapid heart rate, pale skin, easy bruising, prolonged bleeding from cuts, and dizziness. Bone marrow transplant was not an option at that time and so blood transfusion was the treatment of choice. Explain the reasoning behind these other signs and symptoms that Curie experienced. Assume her blood group was A negative. Which blood groups can she receive? Which blood groups can she not receive? Explain why. Be detailed in your explanation and support your answer with facts from your textbook, research, and articles from scholarly journals. In addition, remember to add references in APA format to your posts to avoid plagiarism.

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Marie Curie is suffering from Leukemia therefore she experienced other signs and symptoms. she can receive A negative or O negative blood group

she can not receive A positive, B positive AB positive O positive AB negative and B negative

Blood cells have antigens on their surface that serve as markers or flags, and plasma contains antibodies that detect and reject blood cells with foreign antigens.

she can not receive above-mentioned blood groups because these blood group have different antigen on their surface, and it will agglutinate and reject if transfuse to her.

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