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A regulatory region rearranged BK virus is associated with tubulointerstitial nephritis in a rejected renal allograft.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 2001
Chen C H, Wen M C, Wang M, Lian J D, Wu M J, Cheng C H, Shu K H, Chang D
Abstract excerpt
A renal allograft transplant patient with high serum creatinine presented clinical symptoms of rejection. Sections of renal biopsy tissue showed mononuclear leukocyte infiltration in the tubulointerstitium and nuclear enlargement with inclusions in the tubular epithelium. The morphological characteristics resembled polyomavirus-induced interstitial nephritis. Electron microscopy of the nuclear inclusions showed...
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