Journal of Hepatology
Volume 56, Issue 5 , Pages 1063-1069 , May 2012

High intrahepatic HHV-6 virus loads but neither CMV nor EBV are associated with decreased graft survival after diagnosis of graft hepatitis

  • Sven Pischke

      Affiliations

    • Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Integrierte Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • The authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Juliane Gösling

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • The authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Ilka Engelmann

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • University Lille 2, Faculty of Medicine, CHRU Laboratory of Virology EA3610, 59120 Loos-lez-Lille, France
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  • Jerome Schlue

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Benno Wölk

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Integrierte Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Elmar Jäckel

      Affiliations

    • Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Christoph Meyer-Heithuis

      Affiliations

    • Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Integrierte Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Ulrich Lehmann

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • ,
  • Christian P. Strassburg

      Affiliations

    • Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Hannelore Barg-Hock

      Affiliations

    • Department for Abdominal Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Thomas Becker

      Affiliations

    • Department for Abdominal Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Present address: Department of General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig–Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany.
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  • Michael P. Manns

      Affiliations

    • Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Thomas Schulz

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Konsiliarlabor für HHV-6, HHV-7, EBV und HHV-8, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Heiner Wedemeyer

      Affiliations

    • Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Integrierte Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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  • Albert Heim

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Integrierte Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum Transplantation (IFB-Tx), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. Tel.: +49 511 5324311; fax: +49 511 5325732.

Received 8 July 2011 ,Revised 17 November 2011 ,Accepted 12 December 2011.

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PII: S0168-8278(12)00056-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.12.017

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 56, Issue 5 , Pages 1063-1069 , May 2012

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