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Cytomegalovirus reactivation with bendamustine in patients with low-grade B-cell lymphoma

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  1. Department of Hematology, Yokohama Municipal Citizen’s Hospital, 56 Okazawa-cho, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8555, Japan

    Tetsuo Hasegawa, Yoshinobu Aisa, Kengo Shimazaki & Tomonori Nakazato

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Hasegawa, T., Aisa, Y., Shimazaki, K. et al. Cytomegalovirus reactivation with bendamustine in patients with low-grade B-cell lymphoma. Ann Hematol 94, 515–517 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-014-2182-1

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