African Burkitt's lymphoma: could collaboration with HIV-1 and malaria programmes reduce the high mortality rate?

نویسندگان

  • Sam M Mbulaiteye
  • Ambrose O Talisuna
  • Martin D Ogwang
  • F Ellis McKenzie
  • John L Ziegler
  • Donald M Parkin
چکیده

2302 Cranberry Terrace, Silver Spring, MD, USA (S M Mbulaiteye MD); Uganda Malaria Surveillance Programme, Kampala, Uganda (A O Talisuna PhD); Department of Surgery, St Mary’s Hospital, Lacor, Gulu, Uganda (M D Ogwang MMed); Fogarty International Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (F E McKenzie PhD); Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA (Prof J L Ziegler MSc); and Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (D M Parkin MD)

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Lancet

دوره 375 9726  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010