Co-infection by cytomegalovirus and BK polyoma virus in renal allograft, mimicking acute rejection

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 994-996

  Nada, Ritambhra ^a   Sachdeva, Man Updesh Singh ^a   Sud, Kamal ^a   Jha, Vivekanand ^a   Joshi, Kusum ^a  

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

Author keywords

Allograft; BK polyoma virus; Cytomegalovirus; Rejection; Tubulointerstitial nephritis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIGEN PP65; GANCICLOVIR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIATION; GLOMERULITIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERINFECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; BK VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 18944397170     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh737     Document Type: Article

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