Screening for sickle cell disease on dried blood: A new approach evaluated on 27,000 Belgian newborns

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 132-136

  Boemer, François ^a   Vanbellinghen, Jean François ^b   Bours, Vincent ^b   Schoos, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN S; HEMOGLOBIN VARIANT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS REACTION; ELUTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOGLOBIN SS; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BELGIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33749019093     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 09691413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/096914106778440644     Document Type: Article

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