Cross-contamination: HS-Sultan is not a myeloma but a Burkitt lymphoma cell line [1]

Blood

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 3495-3496

  Drexler, Hans G ^a   MacLeod, Roderick A F ^a   Dirks, Willy G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CYTOGENETICS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; LYMPHOMA CELL; LYMPHOMA CELL LINE; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TUMOR CELL LINE;

EID: 0035761419     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V98.12.3495     Document Type: Letter

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