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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
Abstract excerpt
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 B variant of human herpesvirus 6, the etiological agent of exanthem subitum. HHV-6 B strains are known to be...
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