Infection as a cause of childhood leukemia: virus detection employing whole genome sequencing

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Münster, Germany.
• ² Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, University Children's Hospital, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany ute.fischer@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.
• ³ Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, University Hospital, Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
• ⁴ Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology & Immunology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany.
• ⁶ German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, University Children's Hospital, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ⁸ Fujian Institute of Hematology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China.
• ⁹ Pediatric Oncology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Oncology and Hematology, Charité Berlin, Germany.