No risk of maternal EBV infection for childhood leukemia

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2790-2792

  Tedeschi, Rosamaria ^a   Luostarinen, Tapio ^b   Marus, Alessia ^a   Bzhalava, Davit ^c,g   Ögmundsdottir, Helga M ^d,e   Dillner, Joakim ^c   De Paoli, Paolo ^a   Surcel, Heljä Marja ^f   Pukkala, Eero ^b,g   Lehtinen, Matti ^f,g   Lehtinen, Tuula ^g  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ICELANDIC CANCER SOCIETY   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^f NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; ICELAND; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CAPSID PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; ICELAND; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70350103717     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0751     Document Type: Article

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