BK Virus: A Clinical Review
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Bk virus: a clinical review.
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. BK virus has also been detected in tissue specimens from a variety of neoplasms. We bel...
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BK virus (BKV) is a human polyomavirus with a seroprevalence of 60-80 % in the general population. In renal transplant patients, it is known to cause renal failure, ureteric stenosis and hemorrhagic cystitis. In bone marrow transplant patients, it is evident that BKV can also cause hemorrhagic cystitis along with BK virus nephropathy (BKVN) in the native kidneys, with subsequent renal failure. ...
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More than 70% of the general population worldwide has serological evidence of exposure to Polyomavirus hominis type 1, better known as BK virus (BKV). BKV infection typically occurs during childhood, without specific symptoms, followed by a state of nonreplicative infection in various tissues, with the urogenital tract as the principal site. Asymptomatic reactivation and low-level replication w...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/321813