Infectious human herpesvirus 8 in a healthy North American blood donor

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9052, 1997, Pages 609-611

  Blackbourn, David J ^a   Ambroziak, John ^a   Lennette, Evelyne ^b   Adams, Melanie ^c   Ramachandran, Bineetha ^a   Levy, Jay A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Virolab Inc   (United States)

^c Blood Centers of the Pacific   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD19 ANTIGEN; PHORBOL ESTER; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 6; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HERPES; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0031053866     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)10004-0     Document Type: Article

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