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A Review on JC Virus Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients

The polyomavirus (PyV), 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, kn...

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Autores principales: Delbue, Serena, Ferraresso, Mariano, Ghio, Luciana, Carloni, Camilla, Carluccio, Silvia, Belingheri, Mirco, Edefonti, Alberto, Ferrante, Pasquale
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3569895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23424601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/926391