BK virus
An element of the BK virus enhancer required for DNA replication.
... An analysis of plasmids containing the BK virus origin revealed that sequences within the 68-bp enhancer are required for DNA replication as well as transcription of the early promoter i[r] ...
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Functional Reorganization of Promyelocytic Leukemia Nuclear Bodies during BK Virus Infection
... ABSTRACT BK virus (BKV) is the causative agent for polyomavirus-associated nephropathy, a severe disease found in renal trans- plant patients due to reactivation of a persistent BKV ...simplex virus ...
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Identification of Gangliosides GD1b and GT1b as Receptors for BK Virus
... BK virus (BKV), a member of the human polyomavirus (Py) family, was first isolated in 1971 from the urine of a renal transplant recipient ...the virus to other tissues and organs, particularly the ...
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<p>BK Virus Nephropathy: Prevalence, Impact and Management Strategies</p>
... BKV, BK virus; NCCR, non-coding control region; PVN, BK polyoma virus nephropathy; qPCR, quantitative poly- merase chain reaction; ddcfDNA, donor-derived cell-free DNA; DSA, donor-specific ...
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Early Events during BK Virus Entry and Disassembly
... BK virus (BKV) is a nonenveloped, ubiquitous human polyomavirus that establishes a persistent infection in healthy individuals. It can be reactivated, however, in immunosuppressed patients and cause severe ...
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Toward Standardization of BK Virus Monitoring: Evaluation of the BK Virus R gene Kit for Quantification of BK Viral Load in Urine, Whole Blood, and Plasma Specimens
... he BK virus (BKV)-associated disease most frequently seen after renal transplantation is BKV-associated nephropathy ...the virus (8) but potentially increases the risk of graft ...
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Age-Specific Seroprevalence of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus, BK Virus, and JC Virus
... Using a newly developed VLP-based ELISA, we determined the age-specific seroprevalence of Merkel cell polyomavirus, a recently discovered human polyomavirus implicated in the eti- ology of Merkel cell cancer, and ...
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Squirrel Monkeys Support Replication of BK Virus More Efficiently than Simian Virus 40: an Animal Model for Human BK Virus Infection
... polyomaviruses, BK virus (BKV) and JC virus ...simian virus 40 (SV40), but the drug has significant renal toxicity which limits its utility in human patients ...
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DNA from BK Virus and JC Virus and from KI, WU, and MC Polyomaviruses as Well as from Simian Virus 40 Is Not Detected in Non UV Light Associated Primary Malignant Melanomas of Mucous Membranes
... The single most important causative factor for malignant melanomas of the skin is UV radiation. However, this is not true for melanomas on body surfaces sheltered from the sun; thus, it is important to seek new causative ...
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<p>BK virus in transplant recipients: current perspectives</p>
... named BK virus (BKV), after the initials of that fi rst patient in whom it was ...of BK polyomavirus infection in transplant recipients, the current under- standing about the risk factors and ...
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Nucleotide sequence of the human polyomavirus AS virus, an antigenic variant of BK virus.
... Differences found in ASV relative to BK virus include the absence of tandem repeats in its regulatory region, the deletion of 32 nucleotides in the late mRNA leader region altering the i[r] ...
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A Simple and Reliable Strategy for BK Virus Subtyping and Subgrouping
... the BK virus typing and grouping region on which our algorithm is based is, thus, accurate enough to discriminate among the different subtypes and subgroups, but it is too short to type recombinant strains ...
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BK virus associated meningoencephalitis in an AIDS patient treated with HAART
... A severely immune-suppressed AIDS patient was suspected of suffering from BK virus (BKV) meningoencephalitis, after being studied for common causes of neurological complications of co- infectious origin. ...
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Immunoglobulin G, A, and M Responses to BK Virus in Renal Transplantation
... a virus-like particle-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). BK virus (BKV) and JC virus DNA were detected in urine and plasma by real-time ...between BK virus and JC ...
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Functional role of BK virus tumor antigens in transformation.
... 4613 Downloaded from http://jvi.asm.org/ on November 10, 2019 by guest We have examined the role of the human papovavirus BK virus BKV tumor T antigens in the maintenance of transformati[r] ...
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Review article: BK virus in systemic lupus erythematosus
... found BK viral DNA in the tonsils of children with recurrent attacks of upper respiratory infection, and Sundsjford et ...the virus in the urine; however, no liver pathology report confirming this ...
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Involvement of Cytoskeletal Components in BK Virus Infectious Entry
... of BK virus (BKV) in the renal allograft progresses to polyomavirus-associated nephropathy in 1% to 8% of kidney ...JC virus for an intact actin cytoskeleton during intracellular ...
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BK Virus Infection: A Review
... BK virus (BKV) infection is also called a polyomavirus ...The virus may have gone away and you may have never felt ...the virus may become active and cause harm to your ...The virus may ...
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Calibration of BK Virus Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing to the 1st WHO International Standard for BK Virus
... ABSTRACT Significant interassay variability in the quantification of BK virus (BKV) DNA precludes establishing broadly applicable thresholds for the management of BKV infection in transplantation. The 1st WHO ...
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Replication of Oral BK Virus in Human Salivary Gland Cells
... HIVSGD-1 and MM VL measurements suggested equally effi- cient levels of virion production upon infection of HSG and Vero cells, as the replication kinetics were very similar (Fig. 9). Differ- ences in scored infectious ...
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