Chronic myelosuppression associated with persistent bone marrow infection due to human herpesvirus 6 in a bone marrow transplant recipient

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 174-175

  Knox, Konstance Kehl ^a,b   Carrigan, Donald R ^b  

^a ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DISEASE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0030033678     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.1.174     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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