Complications post renal transplantation: Literature focus on BK virus nephropathy and diagnostic tools actually available

Virology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mischitelli, Monica ^a   Bellizzi, Anna ^a   Anzivino, Elena ^a   Fioriti, Daniela ^a   Boldorini, Renzo ^b   Miglio, Umberto ^b   Chiarini, Fernanda ^a   Di Monaco, Franco ^a   Pietropaolo, Valeria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; BK VIRUS; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; REVIEW; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; CYSTITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; URINE; VIROLOGY;

BK POLYOMAVIRUS;

BK VIRUS; CYSTITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 40949131482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-38     Document Type: Review

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