Human herpesvirus 6 variant A infection with fever, skin, rash, and liver dysfunction in a patient after unrelated cord blood transplantation [3]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1109-1110

  Tomonari, A ^a   Takahashi, S ^a   Ooi, J ^a   Takasugi, K ^a   Konuma, T ^a   Iseki, T ^a   Shirafuji, N ^a   Asano, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HERPES; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANTIGENS, CD34; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASES; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 30544444272     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705184     Document Type: Letter

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