JC virus encephalopathy is associated with a novel agnoprotein-deletion JCV variant.

JC virus encephalopathy (JCVE) is a newly described gray matter disease of the brain caused by productive infection of cortical pyramidal neurons. We characterized the full length sequence of JCV isolated from the brain of a JCVE patient, analyzed its distribution in various compartments by PCR, and...

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Main Authors: Xin Dang, Christian Wüthrich, Jennifer Gordon, Hirofumi Sawa, Igor J Koralnik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3334910?pdf=render