Investigation of leukemia cells from children with common acute lymphoblastic leukemia for genomic sequences of the primate polyomaviruses JC virus, BK virus, and simian virus 40

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 441-443

  Smith, Malcolm A ^a   Strickler, Howard D ^b   Granovsky, Monica ^a   Reaman, Gregory ^c   Linet, Martha ^a   Daniel, Richard ^a   Shah, Keerti V ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ALL; BK virus; JC virus; Leukemia; Simian virus 40

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JC VIRUS; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BK VIRUS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JC VIRUS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

EID: 0032726690     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-911X(199911)33:5<441::AID-MPO1>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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