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John Cunningham (JC) virus genotypes in kidney transplant recipients, rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy individuals in Isfahan, Iran.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 2017
Atyabi Sayyedeh Rahmaneh, Bouzari Majid, Kardi Mohammad Taghi
Abstract excerpt
In healthy individuals John Cunningham virus is latent without any clinical signs, but in the cases of the use of immunosuppressive drugs in graft recipients, autoimmune diseases and also increasing of age, that the immune system is suppressed it may cause disease in reactivation. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is the well-known disease caused by the virus. It has also been associated with...
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