Monitoring of BK virus replication in the first year following renal transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3333-3336

  Costa, Cristina ^a   Bergallo, Massimiliano ^a   Astegiano, Sara ^a   Terlizzi, Maria Elena ^a   Sidoti, Francesca ^a   Segoloni, Giuseppe P ^b   Cavallo, Rossana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

BKV associated nephropathy; Monitoring; Polyomavirus BK; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN A; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BK VIRUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIREMIA; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 52449107795     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn289     Document Type: Article

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