Reply to Boutolleau et al. and Luppi et al. [3]

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 194, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1021-1023

  Clark, Duncan A ^a,c   Tsao, Edward H F ^a   Leong, Hoe Nam ^a   Ward, Katherine N ^a   Nacheva, Elisabeth P ^b   Griffiths, Paul D ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME 17P; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; LETTER; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; U11 GENE; U14 GENE; U27 GENE; U83 GENE; U90 GENE; U91 GENE; U94 GENE; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 33749024752     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506953     Document Type: Letter

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