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Relationships between BK virus lineages and human populations.
Microbes and infection - 1 Feb 2007
Zheng Huai-Ying, Nishimoto Yuriko, Chen Qin, Hasegawa Masami, Zhong Shan, Ikegaya Hiroshi, Ohno Norikazu, Sugimoto Chie, Takasaka Tomokazu, Kitamura Tadaichi, Yogo Yoshiaki
Abstract excerpt
BK polyomavirus (BKV) is ubiquitous in human populations, infecting children asymptomatically and then persisting in the kidney, in which it can cause nephropathy in renal transplant patients. BKV isolates are classified into four subtypes (I-IV) using serological or genotyping methods, and subty...
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