Human Polyomaviruses in Children Undergoing Transplantation, United States, 2008–2010

Immunocompromised patients are at risk for disease caused by infection by some polyomaviruses. To define the prevalence of polyomaviruses in children undergoing transplantation, we collected samples from a longitudinal cohort and tested for the 9 known human polyomaviruses. All were detected; severa...

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Autores principales: Siebrasse, Erica A., Bauer, Irma, Holtz, Lori R., Le, Binh-minh, Lassa-Claxton, Sherry, Canter, Charles, Hmiel, Paul, Shenoy, Shalini, Sweet, Stuart, Turmelle, Yumirle, Shepherd, Ross, Wang, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3471627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23017293
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1810.120359
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Sumario:Immunocompromised patients are at risk for disease caused by infection by some polyomaviruses. To define the prevalence of polyomaviruses in children undergoing transplantation, we collected samples from a longitudinal cohort and tested for the 9 known human polyomaviruses. All were detected; several were present in previously unreported specimen types.

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