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Original Research

Rituximab-based treatments followed by adoptive cellular immunotherapy for biopsy-proven EBV-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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Article: e1139274 | Received 19 Oct 2015, Accepted 03 Jan 2016, Published online: 10 Mar 2016

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