No Association Between Human Herpesvirus Type 8 Infection and multiple Myeloma
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Multiple human herpesvirus-8 infection.
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/90.13.1013