Evaluation of parvovirus B19 infection in children with malignant or hematological disorders

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1426-1427

  Gustafsson, Igge ^a   Kaldensjö, Tove ^a   Lindblom, Anna ^a   Norbeck, Oscar ^a   Henter, Jan Inge ^a   Tolfvenstam, Thomas ^a   Broliden, Kristina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA INFECTIOSUM; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LOAD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, VIRAL; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; PREVALENCE; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 77951786971     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652286     Document Type: Letter

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