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Virology Journal, 2010 Background BK virus infections can have clinically significant consequences in immunocompromised individuals. Detection and monitoring of active BK virus infections in certain situations is recommended and therefore PCR assays for detection of BK virus ...
Stevens Wesley T +13 more
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Revista de Saúde Pública, 1977 A total of 173 sera from isolated Brazilian Indian populations, 39 from the Diauarun area, and 68 from the Alto Xingú area, respectively in the North and the South of the Xingú National Park and 66 Kren-Akorore Indians, were examined for hemagglutination
J. A. N. Candeias +3 more
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BK Virus: A Clinical Review [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2001 We present a review of the clinically oriented literature about BK virus, a relative of JC virus, which is the etiologic agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). The kidney, lung, eye, liver, and brain have been proposed as sites of BK virus-associated disease, both primary and reactivated.
M D, Reploeg, G A, Storch, D B, Clifford
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Prevalence and Viral Load Determination of BK Polyomavirus among Iranian Patients with Brain Tumors
Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 Background: Due to persistent infections of human central nervous system (CNS), polyomaviruses have been identified as one of the risk factors for brain tumor development.
Saghar Saber Amoli +6 more
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BK virus nephropathy in a heart transplant recipient
Brazilian Journal of Nephrology, 2021 BK virus nephropathy in kidney transplantation is widely recognized as an important cause of graft dysfunction and loss. In the case of transplants of organs other than kidney, BK virus nephropathy in native kidneys has been recognized as a cause of ...
John Fredy Nieto-Ríos +6 more
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BK Virus in Cancer Development [PDF]
Current Issues in Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, 2018 Abstract Polyomavirus (PyV) was discovered by accident in 1950 in the course of describing an infectious factor causing multiple tumours in rodents. The term is derived from two Greek words: poly (many) and oma (tumour). At present the family of human polyomaviruses (HPyV) consists of 10 members.
Pasternak Justyna +2 more
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Hematology Reports, 2017 BK virus is a human polyoma virus. It is acquired in early childhood and remains life-long latent in the genitourinary system. BK virus replication is more common in receiving immunosuppressive therapy receiving patients and transplant patients. BK virus
Duygu Mert +7 more
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Polyoma BK Virus: An Oncogenic Virus? [PDF]
Case Reports in Nephrology, 2013 We report a case of a 65-year-old gentleman with a history of end stage renal disease who underwent a successful cadaveric donor kidney transplant four years ago. He subsequently developed BK virus nephropathy related to chronic immunosuppressant therapy. Three years later, misfortune struck again, and he developed adenocarcinoma of the bladder.
Syed Hassan +3 more
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Annals of Hepatology, 2015 Renal dysfunction frequently occurs in liver transplant recipients and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. BK virus is a human polyoma virus that reactivates during immunocompromised states and is a known cause of renal allograft ...
Yangmin Zeng +6 more
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Prevalence of cytomegalovirus and BK polyoma virus infection in post-renal transplant patients in a tertiary care centre in South India [PDF]
Journal of Nephropathology, 2017 Background: Viral infections are a significant cause of graft loss and dysfunction in kidney transplant recipients. Cytomegalovirus and BK polyomavirus have often been explained as the most common viral etiological agents.
Kevin Manuel +4 more
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