A review on JC virus infection in kidney transplant recipients

Clinical and Developmental Immunology

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Delbue, Serena ^a   Ferraresso, Mariano ^b,c   Ghio, Luciana ^d   Carloni, Camilla ^c   Carluccio, Silvia ^c   Belingheri, Mirco ^d   Edefonti, Alberto ^d   Ferrante, Pasquale ^c,e  

^a Health Science Foundation Ettore Sansavini   (Italy)

^b St Joseph Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^e Città Studi Clinical Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATALIZUMAB; RITUXIMAB;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; JC VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LATENCY;

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; JC VIRUS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRUS LATENCY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874534907     PISSN: 17402522     EISSN: 17402530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/926391     Document Type: Review

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