VP1 messenger RNA levels in urine for diagnosing BK virus nephropathy? [5]

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2160-

  Hirsch, Hans H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

BK VIRUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TUBULE CELL; LETTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URINE CYTOLOGY; URINE LEVEL; UROTHELIUM; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0038112113     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000069832.17659.47     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Ding R, Medeiros M, Dadhania D, et al. Noninvasive diagnosis of BK virus nephritis by measurement of messenger RNA for BK virus VP1 in urine. Transplantation 2002; 74: 987.
2. Nickeleit V, Hirsch HH, Binet IF, et al. Polyomavirus infection of renal allograft recipients: from latent infection to manifest disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 1999; 10: 1080.
3. Hirsch HH. Polyomavirus BK nephropathy: a (re-)emerging complication in renal transplantation. Am J Transplant 2002; 2: 25.
4. Nickeleit V, Klimkait T, Binet IF, et al. Testing for polyomavirus type BK DNA in plasma to identify renal-allograft recipients with viral nephropathy. N Engl J Med 2000; 342: 1309.
5. Hirsch HH, Knowles W, Dickenmann M, et al. Prospective study of polyomavirus type BK replication and nephropathy in renal-transplant recipients. N Engl J Med 2002; 347: 488.