Parainfluenza virus infections in patients with hematological malignancies or stem cell transplantation: Analysis of clinical characteristics, nosocomial transmission and viral shedding

• Julia Tabatabai ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: julia.tabatabai@med.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Center for Child and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-9464

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• Paul Schnitzler,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Christiane Prifert,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Martin Schiller,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine, HochFranken Hospitals, Munchberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7791-8045

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• Benedikt Weissbrich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Marie von Lilienfeld-Toal,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans-Knöll Institut, Jena, Germany

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• Daniel Teschner,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hematology, Medical Oncology, & Pneumology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7351-8060

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• Karin Jordan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Carsten Müller-Tidow,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Gerlinde Egerer,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Nicola Giesen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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