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Kawamura, Y., Ohashi, M., Asahito, H. et al. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in a child with post-transplant HHV-6B encephalitis. Bone Marrow Transplant 47, 1381–1382 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2012.42
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