Article
Reappraisal of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy due to simian virus 40.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Sept 1998
Stoner G L, Ryschkewitsch C F
Abstract excerpt
Several cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) have been associated with simian virus 40 (SV40), rather than with JC virus (JCV), the polyomavirus originally isolated from PML tissue. PML has, therefore, been defined as a demyelinating syndrome with possible multiple viral etio...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor
- BK Virus
- Brain
- Capsid
- Capsid Proteins
- Cell Line
- DNA, Viral
- Genotype
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization
- JC Virus
- Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Simian virus 40
- Tumor Virus Infections