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Original Article

Reliable and powerful laboratory markers of cobalamin deficiency in the newborn: plasma and urinary methylmalonic acid

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Pages 60-63 | Received 03 May 2014, Accepted 08 Nov 2014, Published online: 05 Dec 2014

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