Newborn Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme: Automating and Enhancing the System to Evaluate the Screening Programme
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Primary care Iranian national thalassaemia screening programme
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Neonatal Screening
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2409-515X
DOI: 10.3390/ijns5030030