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Hepatitis C virus infection in subsets of neoplastic lymphoproliferations not associated with cryoglobulinemia.
Leukemia - 1 Feb 1996
Luppi M, Grazia Ferrari M, Bonaccorsi G, Longo G, Narni F, Barozzi P, Marasca R, Mussini C, Torelli G
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is both hepatotropic and lymphotropic and a clear-cut association has been proposed between HCV infection and mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC), a benign lymphoproliferative disorder, which sometimes evolves into a frank malignant B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL). Moreover, in the presence of antibodies to HCV, as well as of HCV-specific genomes has been reported in the sera of over 37%...
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