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Towards a point-of-care strip test to diagnose sickle cell anemia

A rapid test to identify patients with sickle cell disease could have important benefits in low-resource settings. Sickle cell anemia (SCA) affects about 300,000 newborns each year, the majority of whom are born in sub-Saharan Africa. Low-cost therapies are available to treat SCA, but most countries...

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Autores principales: Bond, Meaghan, Hunt, Brady, Flynn, Bailey, Huhtinen, Petri, Ware, Russell, Richards-Kortum, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433739/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28520780
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177732