13126 IUPAC Gold Book - erythroblastosis fetalis 10.1351/goldbook.13126 13126 current 1 Two potentially disabling or fatal blood disorders in infants: Rhesus (Rh) factor incompatibility disease and ABO blood group incompatibility disease. The disorders are caused by incompatibility between a mother’s blood and her unborn baby’s blood, causing the mother’s immune system to launch an immune response against the baby’s erythrocytes. ABO blood group https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12828 Rhesus (Rh) factor https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13649 erythrocytes https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13127 immune system https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13271 PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1163 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-11-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13126/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13126/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13126/plain Citation: 'erythroblastosis fetalis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.13126 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-28T21:21:26+00:00