Sweat Testing and Recent Advances

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic disease of the Caucasian population. Sweat testing is the principal diagnostic test for CF, and it is used for the evaluation of infants with positive CF newborn screening (NBS) and in patients with clinical findings suggesting CF. This article d...

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Autores principales: Gokdemir, Yasemin, Karadag, Bulent Taner
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8129525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34017807
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.649904
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description Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic disease of the Caucasian population. Sweat testing is the principal diagnostic test for CF, and it is used for the evaluation of infants with positive CF newborn screening (NBS) and in patients with clinical findings suggesting CF. This article describes the classical sweat test method in detail and also provides an overwiew of recent advances.
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spelling pubmed-81295252021-05-19 Sweat Testing and Recent Advances Gokdemir, Yasemin Karadag, Bulent Taner Front Pediatr Pediatrics Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common fatal genetic disease of the Caucasian population. Sweat testing is the principal diagnostic test for CF, and it is used for the evaluation of infants with positive CF newborn screening (NBS) and in patients with clinical findings suggesting CF. This article describes the classical sweat test method in detail and also provides an overwiew of recent advances. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8129525/ /pubmed/34017807 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.649904 Text en Copyright © 2021 Gokdemir and Karadag. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8129525/
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