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No post-transplant pure red cell aplasia development in 106 major ABO incompatible cord blood transplantation

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Wada, S., Asano-Mori, Y., Yamamoto, H. et al. No post-transplant pure red cell aplasia development in 106 major ABO incompatible cord blood transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 54, 765–768 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0375-2

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