A newborn screening programme for congenital toxoplasmosis in the setting of a country with less income [3]

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-

  Gomez Marin, J E ^a   Gonzalez, M M ^a   Montoya, M T ^a   Giraldo, A ^a   Castano J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE; SULFADIAZINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN SCREENING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; WESTERN BLOTTING; CHORIORETINOPATHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PEDIATRICIAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS;

ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; COLOMBIA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 33846376922     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.106922     Document Type: Letter

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