Dr. John Dayton Lafferty D.D.S.
Dentist | General Practice
312 W. 4th St Saint Ansgar IA, 50472About
Dr. John Lafferty is a Dentist practicing in Saint Ansgar, IA. Dr. Lafferty specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases and conditions associated with the mouth and overall dental health. Dentists are trained to carry out such treatment as professional cleaning, restorative, prosthodontic, and endodontic procedures, and performing examinations, among many others.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An algorithm to aid in the investigation of thalassemia trait in multicultural populations.
- Second report of Hb Toulon [alpha77(EF6)Pro-->His] in a Canadian family of Italian descent.
- Evaluation of a dual hemoglobin A(2)/A(1c) quantitation kit on the bio-rad variant II automated hemoglobin analyzer.
- Fetal-maternal hemorrhage detection in Ontario.
- Identification of a new hemoglobin variant: Hb St. Joseph's [beta77(EF1)His-->Leu].
- Prevalence of thalassemia in patients with microcytosis referred for hemoglobinopathy investigation in Ontario: a prospective cohort study.
- A multicenter trial of the effectiveness of zeta-globin enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and hemoglobin H inclusion body screening for the detection of alpha0-thalassemia trait.
- Bone marrow aspirate collection and preparation--a comparison of three methods.
- The evaluation of various mathematical RBC indices and their efficacy in discriminating between thalassemic and non-thalassemic microcytosis.
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