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[Prevalence of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in a student population on the island of Menorca].
Sangre - 1 Oct 1997
Cladera Serra A, Oliva Berini E, Torrent Quetglas M, Bartolozzi Castilla E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The G6PD deficiency is a red cell enzymopathy very frequent in certain Mediterranean countries. In Menorca (Balearic Islands), a relatively high incidence of favism carried us to study the prevalence of this alteration, taking advantage of the "Campaign for detection of heterozygous beta-thalassaemia to prevent the homozygous beta-thalassaemia" that we make annually. METHODS: We studied a total of...
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