 BK Virus
"BK Virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of POLYOMAVIRUS apparently infecting over 90% of children but not clearly associated with any clinical illness in childhood. The virus remains latent in the body throughout life and can be reactivated under certain circumstances.
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D001739
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.280.640.615.100 B04.909.204.210.620.615.100 B04.909.574.204.670.615.100 B04.909.675.615.100
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| Concept/Terms |
BK Virus- BK Virus
- Polyomavirus, BK
- Polyomavirus hominis 1
- BK polyomavirus
- Human Polyomavirus BK
- Polyomavirus BK, Human
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| 1987 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "BK Virus" by people in Profiles.
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Agrawal N, Echenique IA, Meehan SM, Limaye AP, Cook L, Chang A, Harland RC, Javaid B, Kadambi PV, Matushek S, Williams J, Josephson MA. Variability in assessing for BK viremia: whole blood is not reliable and plasma is not above reproach - a retrospective analysis. Transpl Int. 2017 Jul; 30(7):670-678.
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Ducharme-Smith A, Katz BZ, Bobrowski AE, Backer CL, Pahl E. BK polyomavirus infection in pediatric heart transplant recipients: a prospective study. Pediatr Transplant. 2017 Mar; 21(2).
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Ducharme-Smith A, Katz BZ, Bobrowski AE, Backer CL, Rychlik K, Pahl E. Prevalence of BK polyomavirus infection and association with renal dysfunction in pediatric heart transplant recipients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015 Feb; 34(2):222-6.
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Geetha D, Sozio SM, Ghanta M, Josephson M, Shapiro R, Dadhania D, Hariharan S. Results of repeat renal transplantation after graft loss from BK virus nephropathy. Transplantation. 2011 Oct 15; 92(7):781-6.
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Sanchez-Pinto LN, Laskin BL, Jodele S, Hummel TR, Yin HJ, Goebel J. BK virus nephropathy in a pediatric autologous stem-cell transplant recipient. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2011 Mar; 56(3):495-7.
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O'Donnell PH, Swanson K, Josephson MA, Artz AS, Parsad SD, Ramaprasad C, Pursell K, Rich E, Stock W, van Besien K. BK virus infection is associated with hematuria and renal impairment in recipients of allogeneic hematopoetic stem cell transplants. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2009 Sep; 15(9):1038-1048.e1.
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Ali FN, Meehan SM, Pahl E, Cohn RA. Native BK viral nephropathy in a pediatric heart transplant recipient. Pediatr Transplant. 2010 Jun; 14(4):E38-41.
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Josephson MA, Gillen D, Javaid B, Kadambi P, Meehan S, Foster P, Harland R, Thistlethwaite RJ, Garfinkel M, Atwood W, Jordan J, Sadhu M, Millis MJ, Williams J. Treatment of renal allograft polyoma BK virus infection with leflunomide. Transplantation. 2006 Mar 15; 81(5):704-10.
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Nanovic L, Becker YT, Hedican S, Hofmann RM. Sudden late onset of gross hematuria in a previous renal transplant recipient 3 months after transplant nephrectomy. Am J Kidney Dis. 2005 Nov; 46(5):e91-4.
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Williams JW, Javaid B, Kadambi PV, Gillen D, Harland R, Thistlewaite JR, Garfinkel M, Foster P, Atwood W, Millis JM, Meehan SM, Josephson MA. Leflunomide for polyomavirus type BK nephropathy. N Engl J Med. 2005 Mar 17; 352(11):1157-8.
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