JC Polyomavirus Infections in Transplant Patients
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JC Polyomavirus Infections in Transplant Patients
The polyomavirus JC virus (JCV) is a small nonenveloped DNA virus that asymptomatically infects about 80% of healthy adults and establishes latency in the kidney tissue. In case of immunodeficient hosts, JCV can lytically infect the oligodendrocytes, causing a fatal demyelinating disease, known as Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML). Although the reactivation of another human polyo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Transplantation Technologies & Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2161-0991
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0991.1000e114