From plasma BK viral load to allograft damage: Rule of thumb for estimating the intrarenal cytopathic wear

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 989-990

  Funk, Georg A ^a   Hirsch, Hans H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BK VIRUS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; POLYOMAVIRUS ASSOCIATED NEPHROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BK VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 70049104513     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605538     Document Type: Letter

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