Clinical Chemistry
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Clinical Chemistry 51: 1080-1081, 2005; 10.1373/clinchem.2005.048520
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (2)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Castro, S. M.
Right arrow Articles by Giugliani, R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Castro, S. M.
Right arrow Articles by Giugliani, R.
Related Collections
Right arrow Molecular Diagnostics and Genetics
Right arrow General Clinical Chemistry
Right arrow Pediatric Clinical Chemistry
Right arrow Proteomics and Protein Markers
(Clinical Chemistry. 2005;51:1080-1081.)
© 2005 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

Letters to the Editor

Evaluation of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Stability in Blood Samples under Different Collection and Storage Conditions

Simone M. Castro1,a, Raquel Weber1, Vivian Dadalt1, Vanessa F. Santos2, George J. Reclos3, Kenneth A. Pass4 and Roberto Giugliani5

1 Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2 Centro Universitário Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil
3 R&D DIAGNOSTICS Ltd., Papagos, Greece
4 New York State, Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
5 Serviço de Genética Médica, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

aAddress correspondence to this author at: Faculdade de Farmácia, UFRGS, Av. Ipiranga, 2752, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 90610-000. Fax 55-51-33165434; e-mail scastro@adufrgs.ufrgs.br.

The first 20% of the full text of this article appears below.


To the Editor:

Fujimoto et al. (1) reported that the stability of galactose 1-phosphate in dried blood spots for neonatal screening was adversely affected by humidity and temperature, especially when low-value samples are evaluated. We extend these findings to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD; EC 1.1.1.49) activity, deficiency of which is by far the most common genetic disease worldwide (2) and accounts for more than one-half of the cases of severe jaundice among male newborns in Greece, China, and in Sephardic Jewish groups (3). Tests for G-6-PD deficiency are thus included in newborn screening programs in some regions.

We . . . [Full Text of this Article]






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 2005 by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.