NEONATAL SCREENING FOR INHERITED METABOLIC DISEASES
Routine screening of newborn infants for metabolic disorders was introduced in 1961 after Bickel established an effective dietary therapy for phenyketonuria (PKU) and Guthrie developed a bacterial inhibition assay to detect elevated concentrations of phenylalanine in dried blood tests. Over time, ne...
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Amaltea Medical Publishing House,
2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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