"Polyomavirus Infections" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Infections with POLYOMAVIRUS, which are often cultured from the urine of kidney transplant patients. Excretion of BK VIRUS is associated with ureteral strictures and CYSTITIS, and that of JC VIRUS with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL).
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D027601
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C02.256.721
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Polyomavirus Infections" by people in Profiles.
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PD-1 Dynamically Regulates Inflammation and Development of Brain-Resident Memory CD8 T Cells During Persistent Viral Encephalitis. Front Immunol. 2019; 10:783.
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JC polyoma virus and kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2014 May; 85(5):1242.
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BK virus-associated urinary bladder carcinoma in transplant recipients: productive or nonproductive polyomavirus infections in tumor cells? Hum Pathol. 2013 Dec; 44(12):2870-1.
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Detection of BK polyomavirus after kidney transplantation: a comparison of urine electron microscopy with plasma polymerase chain reaction. Clin Transplant. 2013 Jan-Feb; 27(1):E42-8.
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Viral infection and reactivation in autoimmune disease. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Oct; 58(10):2949-57.
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Evidence of simian virus 40 exposure in a colony of captive baboons. Virology. 2008 Jul 20; 377(1):54-62.
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End-stage renal disease due to polyomavirus in a cardiac transplant patient. Nat Clin Pract Nephrol. 2007 Jul; 3(7):393-6.
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Risk factors for BK polyomavirus nephritis in renal allograft recipients. Clin Transplant. 2004 Aug; 18(4):456-62.
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Diagnosis and management of BK polyomavirus interstitial nephritis in renal transplant recipients. Transplantation. 1999 Nov 15; 68(9):1279-88.