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Camus, V., Bouwyn, JP., Chamseddine, A. et al. Human herpesvirus-6 acute limbic encephalitis after unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation successfully treated with ganciclovir. Bone Marrow Transplant 50, 1385â1387 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2015.159
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