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A method for blood spot immunoreactive trypsin (IRT) determination suitable for neonatal mass screening, and the preliminary steps towards its large-scale application are described. The method showed a highly significant correlation between blood spot and plasma values, and a study of plasma reference values in a population of 1,050 newborn infants demonstrated a log-normal distribution with a mean IRT concentration of 238.3 ng/ml. The results and their implications for neonatal mass screening are discussed.
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Dominici, R., Monaco, F., Morano, S. et al. Immunoreactive trypsin on dried-blood spots as a possible neonatal test for cystic fibrosis. La Ricerca Clin. Lab. 10, 511–519 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02938797
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