Prevalence of chromosomally integrated HHV-6 in patients with malignant disease and healthy donors in the Czech Republic

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-90

  Hubacek, Petr ^a,b   Hrdlickova, Alena ^a   Spacek, Martin ^a   Zajac, Miroslav ^b   Muzikova, Katerina ^a   Sedlacek, Petr ^a   Cetkovsky, Petr ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEOPLASM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 6, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6;

EID: 84871283372     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12223-012-0180-z     Document Type: Article

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