Follow-up study of a nation-wide neonatal metabolic screening program in Japan

✍ Scribed by K. Tada; H. Tateda; S. Arashima; K. Sakai; T. Kitagawa; K. Aoki; S. Suwa; M. Kawamura; T. Oura; M. Takesada; Y. Kuroda; F. Yamashita; I. Matsuda; H. Naruse

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 407 KB
• Volume: 142
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6997
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00442450

✦ Synopsis

A nationwide neonatal sreening program for phenylketonuria (PKU), maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), homocystinuria, histidinemia and galactosemia was started in Japan in 1977. The total number of infants screened had reached