GB virus C infection and non-Hodgkin lymphoma: Important to know but the jury is out

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2759-2761

  Stapleton, Jack T ^a   Chaloner, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEPATITIS; APOPTOSIS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD DONOR; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTION; GENETICS; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

FLAVIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GB VIRUS C; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN;

EID: 77951927984     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25194     Document Type: Editorial

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