What Method of Laboratory Testing Searches for More Than 20

question 34

Multiple Choice

What method of laboratory testing searches for more than 20 metabolic disorders in one process, using the dried blood-spot specimen?

• A) Photothermal spectroscopy
• B) Thermal infrared spectroscopy
• C) Photoemission spectroscopy
• D) Tandem mass spectroscopy

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