Challenging complications of treatment -human herpes virus 6 encephalitis and pneumonitis in a patient undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation for relapsed Hodgkin's disease: A case report

Virology Journal

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bommer, Martin ^a   Pauls, Sandra ^a   Greiner, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSCARNET; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MALE; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PNEUMONIA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

ADULT; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; ROSEOLOVIRUS INFECTIONS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 68749115376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-6-111     Document Type: Article

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