Toxoplasma gondii infection in patients with hematological malignancies

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 592-595

  Pagano, Livio ^a   Trapè, Giulio ^a   Putzulu, Rossana ^a   Caramatti, Cecilia ^b   Picardi, Marco ^c   Nosari, Annamaria ^d   Cinieri, Saverio ^e   Caira, Morena ^a   Del Favero, Albano ^f  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^e EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Leukemia; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

PENTAMIDINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SPIRAMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEURORADIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 4444351164     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-004-0898-z     Document Type: Article

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