Newborn screening program for hemoglobinopathies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lopes de Castro Lobo, Clarisse; K. Ballas, Samir; Carolina Bonini Domingos, Ana; Moura, Patrícia; Matos do Nascimento, Emília; Perez Cardoso, Gilberto; Maia Farias de Carvalho, Sílvia

doi:10.1002/pbc.24711

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Newborn screening program for hemoglobinopathies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer • Sep 4, 2013

Authors:

Clarisse Lopes de Castro Lobo

Samir K. Ballas

Ana Carolina Bonini Domingos

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Newborn screening for hemoglobinopathy in Brazil has been decentralized until 2001 when the Health Ministry of Brazil established the National Newborn Hemoglobinopathy Screening Program. The State of Rio de Janeiro started a program in collaboration with the State Health Department and t...

Subject

Medicine

Hemoglobinopathy

Newborn screening

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