Oral ribavirin for severe adenovirus infection after allogeneic marrow transplantation [2]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1107-1108

  Abe, S ^a   Miyamura, K ^a,b   Oba, T ^b   Terakura, S ^b   Kasai, M ^b   Kitaori, K ^b   Sasaki, T ^a   Kodera, Y ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGOYA FIRST HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; VIDARABINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYSTITIS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RIBAVIRIN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0347382583     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704276     Document Type: Letter

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