β-herpesviruses in febrile children with cancer

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 579-585

  Yee Guardino, Stephanie ^a   Gowans, Kate ^a   Yen Lieberman, Belinda ^a   Berk, Pamela ^a   Kohn, Debra ^a   Wang, Fu Zhang ^a,b   Danziger Isakov, Lara ^a   Sabella, Camille ^a   Worley, Sarah ^a   Pellett, Philip E ^a,c   Goldfarb, Johanna ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 42049083577     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1404.070651     Document Type: Article

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