Expanded newborn screening: Guiding principles, concerns and relevance
Since its introduction in 1960s, universal newborn screening (NBS) using the heel-prick dried blood spot samples has become an integral part of public health system in developed countries expanded to pre-symptomatic detection of specific inherited metabolic, endocrine and hematologic disorders. In o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Muller Journal of Medical Sciences and Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mjmsr.net/article.asp?issn=0975-9727;year=2014;volume=5;issue=1;spage=59;epage=63;aulast=Sindgikar |