Red blood cell disorders in Rwandese neonates: Screening for sickle cell disease and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 129-131

  Munyanganizi, Rosine ^b   Cotton, Frédéric ^a   Vertongen, Fanchon ^a   Gulbis, Béatrice ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN S;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE DEFICIENCY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PUBLIC HEALTH; PYRUVATE KINASE DEFICIENCY; RWANDA; SCREENING TEST; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

EID: 33749027218     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 09691413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/096914106778440626     Document Type: Article

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