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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| التنسيق: | مقال |
| اللغة: | English |
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Wiley
2013-01-01
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| سلاسل: | Clinical and Developmental Immunology |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/926391 |