Polyomavirus BK replication in renal transplant recipients: combined monitoring of viremia and VP1 mRNA in urine
Introduction. Human polyomavirus BK (BKV) is worldwide distributed, with a seroprevalence rate of 70–90% in the adults. Following primary infection, BK remains latent in the renourinary tract as the epidemiologically most relevant latency site, and in B cell, brain, spleen and probably other tissues...
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Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2010-06-01
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Series: | Microbiologia Medica |
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Online Access: | http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/mm/article/view/2465 |