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Epidemiology and clinical outcome of lower respiratory tract infections by respiratory syncytial virus or parainfluenza virus type 3 in adults receiving treatment for either acute leukemia or severe aplastic anemia: a retrospective single center study

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by grants from the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC, IG 14797–2013, to ML) and the Associazione Italiana Lotta alle Leucemie, Linfoma e Mieloma (AIL)—Sezione “Luciano Pavarotti” Modena-ONLUS (to FF and LePo).

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All procedures performed in the this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Written informed consent was obtained from alive patients, after local Ethical Committee’s study approval (Comitato Etico Provinciale di Modena).

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Mario Luppi and Fabio Forghieri contributed equally to this work.

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Bigliardi, S., Morselli, M., Potenza, L. et al. Epidemiology and clinical outcome of lower respiratory tract infections by respiratory syncytial virus or parainfluenza virus type 3 in adults receiving treatment for either acute leukemia or severe aplastic anemia: a retrospective single center study. Ann Hematol 94, 1931–1934 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-015-2455-3

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