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An infant presents to OPD with a history of vomiting and poor feeding. Musty odor is present in baby's urine. Guthrie test was done and found to be positive. The most likely diagnosis is?

A
Phenylketonuria
B
Alkaptonuria
C
Tyrosinemia
D
Maple syrup urine disease
High-Yield Explanation
Clinical Presentation of Phenylketonuria  The affected infant is normal at birth.  Profound intellectual disability develops gradually if the infant remains untreated.  Vomiting, sometimes severe enough to be misdiagnosed as pyloric stenosis.  Older untreated children become hyperactive with autistic behaviors including purposeless hand movements, rhythmic rocking and athetosis.  The infants are lighter in their complexion than unaffected (Phenylalanine not converted to Tyrosine, so decreased melanin synthesis). These children have an unpleasant mousy or musty odor of phenylacetic acid. Lab Diagnosis of PKU Guthrie Test (Bacterial Inhibition Assay of Guthrie). Rapid screening test in the blood sample. First method used for this purpose. Reference- Harper’s illustrated biochemistry. 30th edition page -304

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