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Please help! what is the disease resulting from the unability to produce the enzume g6pd?
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G6PD deficiency: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is a hereditary condition in which red blood cells break down when the body is exposed to certain drugs or the stress of infection. For more info: http://www.Nlm.Nih.Gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000528.Htm.
Answered 2/19/2017
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