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Letters to the Editor
JEYANTHY ESWARAN - jeyanthy.eswaran@newcastle.ac.uk doi:10.3324/haematol.2020.268581
Received: August 9, 2020.
Accepted: October 28, 2020.
Pre-published: November 12, 2020.
Disclosures: no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Contributions:RR,MRandRMcontributedtothedataand samples; NY performed the blood smear and PCR tests, analyzed results and collected the cohort; NY, MS, AL, EJM and JE analyzed the cohort data, and prepared the figures and tables; LJB, MS and JE wrote the manuscript.
Acknowledgments: the authors would like to thank the patients and their families for their full cooperation without which this report would not have been possible.
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