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Using dried blood spot on HemoTypeSC™, a new frontier for newborn screening for sickle cell disease in Nigeria

Background: HemoTypeSC is a rapid, point-of-care testing (POCT) device for sickle cell disease (SCD) that traditionally uses the capillary blood from heel stick collected at the point of testing, a procedure that makes mass screening cumbersome and less cost-effective. Using dried blood spots (DBS)...

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Autores principales: Okeke, Chinwe O., Chianumba, Reuben I., Isa, Hezekiah, Asala, Samuel, Nnodu, Obiageli E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9644131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36386848
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1013858