Role of urinary cytology in detecting human polyoma BK virus in kidney transplant recipients: A preliminary report

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-239

  Kapila, Kusum ^a   Nampoory, Mangalathillom R N ^a   Johny, Kaivilayil V ^a   Pacsa, Alexander S ^a   Al Ayadhy, Bushra ^a   Mathew, Jessy R ^a   Nair, Madhavan P ^a   Halim, Medhat A ^a   George, Sara S ^a   Francis, Issam M ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

BK virus; Renal transplant recipients; Urine cytology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZATION; URINALYSIS; URINE CYTOLOGY; URINE SEDIMENT; VAGINA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ADULT; BK VIRUS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 34147109212     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100398     Document Type: Article

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