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Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 585-586 , May 2010

Asymptomatic infection with novel influenza A/H1N1 virus in a heart transplant recipient

Sven Meyer, MD
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Reprint requests: Sven Meyer, MD, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, Heart Failure and Transplantation Unit, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Martinistrasse 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany. Telephone: +49-40-74105-3471. Fax: +49-40-74105-4591
Corina Ilchmann, MD
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Matti Adam, MD
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Edgar Sattinger, MD
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Dimitrios Siamkouris, MD
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Umeswaran Arunagirinathan, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Tobias Deuse, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Florian M. Wagner, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Angelika Costard-Jaeckle, MD
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center, University Medical Center Hamburg–Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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