25 Years of Newborn Screening in Uruguay
Abstract In the 1960s Guthrie conceived the idea of preventing congenital disease using dried blood spot samples on filter paper to detect them through biochemical tests and then be able to treat environmental factors in time to avoid the devastating effect of the diseases. Uruguay started in 1994 w...
Main Authors: | Cecilia Queijo, A. Lemes, G. Queiruga |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SciELO
2021-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Screening |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2326-45942021000100315&tlng=en |
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