Human herpesvirus-6 infection after liver transplantation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 702-707

  Lautenschlager, Irmeli ^a,b   Höckerstedt, Krister ^a   Linnavuori, Kimmo ^a   Taskinen, Eero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; HERPES; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0031958308     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514592     Document Type: Article

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