Feasibility of a Newborn Screening and Follow-up Programme for Sickle Cell Disease among South Gujarat (India) Tribal Populations

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Italia, Yazdi ^a   Krishnamurti, Lakshmanan ^b   Mehta, Vishal ^a   Raicha, Bhavesh ^a   Italia, Khushnooma ^c   Mehta, Pallavi ^c   Ghosh, Kanjaksha ^c   Colah, Roshan ^c  

^a Valsad Raktdan Kendra   (India)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOHAEMATOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

newborn screening; sickle cell disease; tribal population; western India

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEPATOMEGALY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; SPLENOMEGALY; THALASSEMIA;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREVALENCE; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; SPLENOMEGALY; THALASSEMIA;

EID: 84932131846     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969141314557372     Document Type: Article

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