Infections and thalassaemia

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 226-233

  Vento, Sandro ^a,b   Cainelli, Francesca ^b   Cesario, Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Annunziata Hospital ^*  (Italy)

^c ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; INFECTION; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLENECTOMY; THALASSEMIA; TT VIRUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

COMORBIDITY; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA; MALARIA; THALASSEMIA; WORLD HEALTH; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 33645100010     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(06)70437-6     Document Type: Review

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