Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059
Volume 14, Number 4—April 2008
CME ACTIVITY
β-Herpesviruses in Febrile Children with Cancer
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify common infections associated with β-herpesviruses
- Specify β-herpesviruses isolated from children in the current study
- Describe clinical characteristics of β-herpesvirus infections in the current study
- List factors associated with higher rates of infection with human herpesvirus in the current study
Editor
D. Peter Drotman, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Emerging Infectious Diseases. Disclosure: D. Peter Drotman, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
CME AUTHOR
Charles P. Vega, MD, Associate Professor; Residency Director, Department of Family Medicine, University of California, Irvine. Disclosure: Charles P. Vega, MD, has disclosed that he has served as an advisor or consultant to Novartis, Inc.
Authors
Stephanie Yee-Guardino, DO, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Stephanie Yee-Guardino, DO, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Kate Gowans, MD, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Kate Gowans, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD, Laboratory Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD, has disclosed that she has received reagents at no charge from ARTUS Diagnostics.
Pamela Berk, BS, Department of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Pamela Berk, BS, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Debra Kohn, BS, MT, Laboratory Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Debra Kohn, BS, MT, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Fu-Zhang Wang, PhD, Department of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research, Institute Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Fu-Zhang Wang, PhD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Departments of Infectious Diseases, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Camille Sabella, MD, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Departments of Infectious Diseases, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Camille Sabella, MD, has disclosed that she has received grants from Merck, Inc. and Sanofi Pasteur.
Sarah Worley, MS, Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Sarah Worley, MS, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Philip E. Pellett, PhD, Departments of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Philip E. Pellett, PhD, has disclosed that he has received royalties from Chemicon International.
Johanna Goldfarb, MD, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio; Departments of Infectious Diseases, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Disclosure: Johanna Goldfarb, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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