The rapidly expanding family of human polyomaviruses: recent developments in understanding their life cycle and role in human pathology.

Since their discovery in 1971, the polyomaviruses JC (JCPyV) and BK (BKPyV), isolated from patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, respectively, remained for decades as the only known members of the Polyomaviridae family of viruses of human o...

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Main Authors: Martyn K White, Jennifer Gordon, Kamel Khalili
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-03-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3597531?pdf=render