Bacterial infection-associated improvement of platelet counts in two patients with chronic and unresponsive idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura with normal platelet survival studies.

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Published in Br J Haematol on June 01, 1995

Authors

J O Bordin1, J W Smith, C P Hayward, T E Warkentin, P Wasi, J G Kelton

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine and Pathology, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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