Article
JC virus (JCV) genotypes in brain tissue from patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and in urine from controls without PML: increased frequency of JCV type 2 in PML.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jul 1997
Agostini H T, Ryschkewitsch C F, Mory R, Singer E J, Stoner G L
Abstract excerpt
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is caused by the human polyomavirus JC (JCV), and there are at least 4 different genotypes of JCV in the United States. Type 1 strains are of European origin, whereas type 2 and 3 strains are of Asian and African origin, respectively. JCV type 4 st...
Topics
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Brain
- Child
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV-1
- Humans
- JC Virus
- Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data