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Absent immunoglobulins in HIV-related Burkitt lymphoma/leukaemia

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We thank A. Breuer and T. Buhl for technical assistance and S. Merkelbach-Bruse for general advice and review of the manuscript.

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  1. Institut für Pathologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53105, Bonn, Germany

    Akihiko Shimomura, Zeynep Balta, Reinhard Büttner, Alexander von Rücker & Ines Gütgemann

  2. Department of Pathology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan

    Akihiko Shimomura

  3. Department of Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal & Ingo G. H. Schmidt-Wolf

  4. Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Dortmund, Germany

    Elisabeth Schroers

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Shimomura, A., Lilienfeld-Toal, M.v., Balta, Z. et al. Absent immunoglobulins in HIV-related Burkitt lymphoma/leukaemia. Ann Hematol 87, 255–256 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-007-0389-0

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