Does prior infection with varicella-zoster virus influence risk of adult glioma?

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on April 01, 1997

Authors

M Wrensch1, A Weinberg, J Wiencke, H Masters, R Miike, G Barger, M Lee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0560, USA.

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