guthrie test การใช้

• One method is a post-parturition screening test known as the Guthrie Test.
• The classical Guthrie test is named after Robert Guthrie, an American bacteriologist and physician who devised it in 1962.
• Levy said that one in 10, 000 newborns has PKU . The cost of materials for the Guthrie test is about 3 cents, while the lifetime care of an untreated PKU victim is about $ 1 million.
• IRT is measured in routine heel-prick blood taken for biochemical screening of all newborn infants born in the UK . This test is one of a number of completed in newborn screening ( the " Guthrie Test " ).