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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2000) 15: 754-755
© 2000 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

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Human polyomavirus BKV and renal disease

Keerti V. Shah

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

Human and non-human polyomaviruses

In 1971, two human polyomaviruses were discovered, BK virus (BKV) from the urine of a renal transplant recipient (whose initials were B.K.) and JC virus (JCV) from the brain of a patient (whose initials were J.C.) with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). The polyomavirus subfamily of the papovavirus family also includes viruses of monkeys (rhesus and cynomologus macaques, African green monkey, baboon), cattle, rabbit, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

BKV and JCV biology

BKV-related urinary tract pathology

Role of donor kidney

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