Editorial: Human herpesvirus-8: What (not) to do redux?

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 959-962

  Katz, Louis M ^a   Dodd, Roger Y ^b  

^a Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center   (United States)

^b HOLLAND LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; EDITORIAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLUENZA; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY EFFUSION LYMPHOMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROPREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HOMOSEXUALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOTE;

BLOOD DONORS; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 77951698481     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02637.x     Document Type: Editorial

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