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Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in a Low-Resource Setting; Research Protocol and Preliminary Results of the Tanzania Pulse Oximetry Study Cover

Newborn Screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease in a Low-Resource Setting; Research Protocol and Preliminary Results of the Tanzania Pulse Oximetry Study

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|May 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1110 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 19, 2022
Accepted on: Feb 23, 2022
Published on: May 26, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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