Bone marrow transplant recipients harbor the B variant of human herpesvirus 6.

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Bone marrow transplant recipients harbor the B variant of human herpesvirus 6.

Bone marrow transplantation - 1 Nov 1994

Frenkel N, Katsafanas G C, Wyatt L S, Yoshikawa T, Asano Y

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Lymphotropic herpesviruses have recently been isolated from patients undergoing kidney, liver and bone marrow transplantation (BMT). We have molecularly characterized isolates of HHV-6 from children undergoing allogenic BMT. We show that viruses recovered from the BMT recipients correspond to the...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Child
Child, Preschool
DNA Restriction Enzymes
DNA, Viral
Genetic Variation
Herpesviridae Infections
Herpesvirus 6, Human
Humans
Viremia

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