Thrombocytopenia caused by acquired cytomegalovirus infection in children

Pediatrics International

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-114

  Sakata, Hiroshi ^a   Ikegami, Kazuhiro ^a   Nagaya, Ken ^a   Shirai, Masaru ^a   Maruyama, Shizuo ^a  

^a Asahikawa Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0033002381     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-200x.1999.01007.x     Document Type: Article

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