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Detection of mycobacterial and viral DNA in Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: an analysis of 153 Chinese pediatric cases

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This work was supported in part by Beijing Natural Science Foundation (7162060 to ZX), Basic and Clinic Science Foundation of Capital Medical University (16JL22 to ZX), Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding (ZYLX201601 to LM), Health and Family Planning Research and Development Foundation of Shunyi District (Wsjzkyfzzx-z-02 to ZX), and the US National Institutes of Health grant (P30-CA008748 to YWT).

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children’s Health, Beijing, 100045, China

    Zhe Xu, Ying Liu & Lin Ma

  2. Department of Dermatology, Shunyi Maternal and Children’s Hospital of Beijing Children’s Hospital, Beijing, 101300, China

    Zhe Xu

  3. Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA

    Zhe Xu, Haijing Li, Shufang Meng, Alan S. Boyd, Charles W. Stratton & Yi-Wei Tang

  4. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, 10029, USA

    Haijing Li

  5. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, 10065, USA

    Yi-Wei Tang

  6. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, 10065, USA

    Yi-Wei Tang

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Xu, Z., Liu, Y., Li, H. et al. Detection of mycobacterial and viral DNA in Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease: an analysis of 153 Chinese pediatric cases. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 775–777 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9087-6

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