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Estela Giménez holds a Río Hortega research contract from the Carlos III Health Institute (Ref. CM16/00200). We thank José Miguel Molina for technical assistance. This research was supported in part by grants from FIS (Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Spain) (12/01992) from AECC (Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer) for post-doctoral research (2013).
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Solano, C., Talaya, A., Giménez, E. et al. Refractory cytomegalovirus DNAemia after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: when should genotypic drug resistance testing be requested?. Bone Marrow Transplant 53, 787–790 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0191-8
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