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Background: The use of dried blood spot (DBS) sampling is an alternative to traditional venous blood collection, and particularly useful for people living in rural and remote areas, and for those ...

A recent study from North Carolina State University finds that “dry blood spot” sampling, or DBS, is comparable to techniques that use larger blood samples and require immediate cold storage ...

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[13] Dried blood spot sampling is an alternative to traditional blood sampling, and has been used in clinical and epidemiological studies for several decades. [6,8,14] This method provides results ...