Infectious causes of cancer: An evolving educational saga

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 961-963

  Pappas, G ^a  

^a Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MORBIDITY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; STOMACH CANCER; WART VIRUS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS;

EID: 70449120132     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03034.x     Document Type: Editorial

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