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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 820621, 18 pages
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Review Article

Viral Infection in Renal Transplant Recipients

Jovana Cukuranovic, Sladjana Ugrenovic, Ivan Jovanovic, Milan Visnjic, and Vladisav Stefanovic

Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, 18000 Nis, Serbia

Received 2 December 2011; Accepted 10 January 2012

Academic Editors: S. Basmaciogullari, B. Harrach, and K. Mansfield

Copyright © 2012 Jovana Cukuranovic et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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