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Different genotypes of human polyomaviruses found in patients with autoimmune diseases in Taiwan.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Feb 1996
Chang D, Tsai R T, Wang M, Ou W C
Abstract excerpt
We have assayed for the presence of human polyomaviruses in urine of autoimmune disease patients, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjogren's syndrome (SS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or dermatomyositis/polymositis (DM/PM), by PCR. The results indicate that approximately 40% of patients were JCV positive and 15% of the JCV positive patients were also infected by BKV at the same time according to...
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