A New Approach Based on Erythrocyte Indices to Exclude Normal Populations from Chromatography Based Thalassemia Screening Programs with Very High Fidelity

نویسندگان
Das, Ushnish ID 1
Samanta, Abhishek ID 2
Chaudhuri, Paban Kumar ID 3
Bhattacharyya, Nandan ID 4

1 Statistical Programming and Analysis Division, Tata Consultancy Services, Puna, India

2 Department of Zoology, Panskura Banamali College, P.O. – Panskura R.S., West Bengal PIN 721152, India

3 Thalassaemia Control Unit, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India

4 Department of Biotechnology, Panskura Banamali College, P.O. – Panskura R.S., West Bengal PIN 721152, India

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چکیده

Background: Screening and counselling is the most effective way to prevent the birth of children with thalassemia major. An accurate and relatively less time-consuming protocol is necessary to screen large populations. Separating iron deficiency anaemia from thalassemia trait based on blood cell parameters has been used by hematologists for many ...

کلیدواژه‌ها
Erythrocyte indices, Thalassemia, Screening