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Surveillance for sickle cell disease, United Republic of Tanzania

OBJECTIVE: To determine the regional- and district-level newborn prevalence of sickle cell trait and disease, and the prevalence of haemoglobin variants and genetic modifiers of sickle cell disease, in the nine regions of north-western United Republic of Tanzania. METHODS: We repurposed dried blood...

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Autores principales: Ambrose, Emmanuela E, Smart, Luke R, Charles, Mwesige, Hernandez, Arielle G, Latham, Teresa, Hokororo, Adolfine, Beyanga, Medard, Howard, Thad A, Kamugisha, Erasmus, McElhinney, Kathryn E, Tebuka, Erius, Ware, Russell E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7716099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33293746
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.20.253583