Polyomavirus – an emergent pathogen in transplant recipients

Polyomavirus – an emergent pathogen in transplant recipients

Medical centers that work with transplants often face opportunisticinfections that demand specific tools to make diagnosis. Theprevalence of latent polyomavirus infections is high, and the mostcommon site of latency of the most prevalent polyomavirus in humans,BK virus (BKV), is the renal tissue. He...

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Main Authors: Juliana de Moura Montagner, Tatiana Ferreira Michelon, Regina Barbosa Schroeder, Bárbara Tengaten Fontanelle, Alexandre Tavares Duarte de Oliveira, Janaina Gomes da Silveira, Márcia Silveira Graudenz, Cláudio Osmar Pereira Alexandre, Jorge Neumann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2007-06-01
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
Subjects:
Polyomavirus
Polyomavirus infections/diagnosis
Virus diseases
Kidney diseases
BK Virus
Transplants
Online Access:http://www.einstein.br/revista/arquivos/PDF/637-184-189.medical-polyomavirus.5.2.1.pdf

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