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    Apt-Downey test

    (ALKALINE DENATURATION METHOD FOR FOETAL HAEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION)
    Apt-Downey test

    Apt-Downey test

    McRury JM & Barry RC: A modified Apt test: a new look at an old test.. Pediatr Emerg Care 1994; 10:189-191.

    Liu N, Wu AH, & Wong SS: Improved quantitative Apt test for detecting fetal hemoglobin in bloody stools of newborns. Clin Chem 1993; 39(11):2326-2329. Available from URL: http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/reprint/39/11/2326. As accessed 1/27/2005.

    Crook M: Haemoglobin in stools from neonates: measurement by a modified Apt-test. Med Lab Sci 1991; 48(4):346-347.

    Henry JB: Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 20th ed. Saunders, 2001.