Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 17, Issue 4 , Pages 566-573 , April 2011

Novel H1N1 Influenza in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Recipients: Two Centers’ Experiences

  • Luis Espinosa-Aguilar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
    • co-first author.
    • ,
  • Jaime S. Green

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
    • co-first author.
    • ,
  • Graeme N. Forrest

      Affiliations

    • Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
    • ,
  • Edward D. Ball

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
    • ,
  • Richard T. Maziarz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
    • ,
  • Lynne Strasfeld

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
    • co-first author.
    • ,
  • Randy Allison Taplitz

      Affiliations

    • University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
    • co-senior author.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Dr Randy Allison Taplitz, University of California San Diego, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, #0960, La Jolla, CA 92093-0960.

Received 25 May 2010 ,Accepted 19 July 2010.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments, page 572.

PII: S1083-8791(10)00319-8

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.07.018

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 17, Issue 4 , Pages 566-573 , April 2011

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