The Neonatal Screening Program in Brazil, Focus on Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)

• Главные авторы: Ana C. Silva-Pinto (Автор), Maria Cândida Alencar de Queiroz (Автор), Paula Juliana Antoniazzo Zamaro (Автор), Miranete Arruda (Автор), Helena Pimentel dos Santos (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: MDPI AG, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Since 2001, the Brazilian Ministry of Health has been coordinating a National Neonatal Screening Program (NNSP) that now covers all the 26 states and the Federal District of the Brazilian Republic and targets six diseases including sickle cell disease (SCD) and other hemoglobinopathies. In 2005, the...