Transplacental transmission of human polyomavirus BK

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 372-376

  Pietropaolo, Valeria ^a   Di Taranto, Cristiana ^a   Degener, Anna Marta ^a   Jin, Li ^b   Sinibaldi, Laura ^a   Baiocchini, Andrea ^a   Melis, Marco ^a   Orsi, Nicola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human polyomavirus; Regulatory region sequence; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BK VIRUS; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ABORTION, INDUCED; BASE SEQUENCE; BK VIRUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

BK POLYOMAVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; JC VIRUS; MIRIDAE; POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 0031769081     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199812)56:4<372::AID-JMV14>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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