Year: 1953
Type: article
Abstract: The recognition of the condition known as galactosaemia or chronic galactosuria which occurs mainly in infanits and young children has directed attention to the detection of galactose in urine.Though the condition is rare, an increasing number of cases is being reported, and it is advisable to consider the possibility ofits occurrence whenever an illness in an infant is accompanied by the presence of a reducing substance in the urine.Diabetes mellitus, though also rare in infants, must of course also be con- sidered, and therefore any test for galactose must be able to differentiate this sugar quite clearly from
Source: Biochemical Journal
DOI: 10.1042/bj0550718
Author: F. S. Fowweather
Institution: University of Leeds
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Biochemistry
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2407180064