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Viral Infections

Per Ljungman  1   2 , Jose Luis Piñana  3   4 , Simone Cesaro  5 , Rafael de la Cámara  6
Anna Sureda  1 , Selim Corbacioglu  2 , Raffaella Greco  3 , Nicolaus Kröger  4 , Enric Carreras  5
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In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 8th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2024. Chapter 38.
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Viral Infections

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Viral infections are important and possibly serious complications to cellular therapies especially allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The most important virus infections are caused by the herpesviruses, adenovirus, and community acquired respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV-2, but also other more rare infections require attention. This chapter discusses some of these infections and their management

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