Screening for galactosaemia in Greece

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 436-440

  Schulpis, Kleopatra ^a,c   Papakonstantinou, Evangelos D ^a   Michelakakis, Helen ^a   Podskarbi, Theodor ^b   Patsouras, Aristoula ^b   Shin, Yoon ^b  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Children's Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIMERASE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALORIMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GALACTOSEMIA; GREECE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING;

EID: 0031397344     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1997.d01-31.x     Document Type: Article

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