The high incidence of BK polyoma virus infection among renal transplant recipients in India

Transplantation

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 429-431

  Sachdeva, Manupdesh Singh ^a   Nada, Ritambara ^a   Jha, Vivekanand ^a   Sakhuja, Vinay ^a   Joshi, Kusum ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INDIA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; BK VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INDIA; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 1142286288     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000113163.02039.30     Document Type: Article

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