Antigens are located on the surface of RBC. Ab are found in plasma
when you remove the RBC from the patients specimen, you have to go past the plasma to get to the RBC. Therefore you may remove some plasma as well as the RBC. Any Ag in the plasma will interfere with the expected agglutination
so we wash the RBC to get rid of all traces of plasma, and of Ab.
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