Polyomavirus – an emergent pathogen in transplant recipients
Medical centers that work with transplants often face opportunisticinfections that demand specific tools to make diagnosis. Theprevalence of latent polyomavirus infections is high, and the mostcommon site of latency of the most prevalent polyomavirus in humans,BK virus (BKV), is the renal tissue. He...
Main Authors: | Juliana de Moura Montagner, Tatiana Ferreira Michelon, Regina Barbosa Schroeder, Bárbara Tengaten Fontanelle, Alexandre Tavares Duarte de Oliveira, Janaina Gomes da Silveira, Márcia Silveira Graudenz, Cláudio Osmar Pereira Alexandre, Jorge Neumann |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
2007-06-01
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Series: | Einstein (São Paulo) |
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Online Access: | http://www.einstein.br/revista/arquivos/PDF/637-184-189.medical-polyomavirus.5.2.1.pdf |
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