...Fereshteh Safaei; Alireza Mohebbi; Mina Hassanpour; Hadi Razavi Nikoo; Alijan Tabarraei Background: Members of the Polyomaviridae family, BK virus (BKV), and John Cunningham virus (JCV) are linked to polyomavirus-associated nephropathy-associated transplant rejection in immunodeficient patients...

...Somayeh Shatizadeh Malekshahi; Hoorieh Soleimanjahi; Fariba Dorostkar; Vahid Salimi; Mohammad Farahmand Introduction: BK virus (BKV) infection in renal transplant (RT) recipients can cause hemorrhagic cystitis, transient renal dysfunction, and BKV nephropathy (BKVN). The prevalence and significance...

.... Polyomavirus Genotypes BK virus Prion disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Phylogenetic tree Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases, such as scrapie in sheep, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, are fatal infectious...

...Paolo Monini; Laura de Lellis; Antonella Rotola; Dario Di Luca; Tullia Ravaioli; Beatrice Bigoni; Enzo Cassai BK virus (BKV) DNA sequences were identified in a papillary urothelial bladder carcinoma by Southern blot hybridization. The carcinoma contained both integrated and extrachromosomal DNA...

... typical of BK virus DNA and were identical for the two isolates. However, there were significant differences in the sizes of the Hind lll fragments when compared with those of standard cell-culture-adapted BK virus strains. 5 05 1981 24 7 2008 © 1981 S. Karger AG, Basel 1981 Copyright...

...Maria Pia Grossi; Guerríno Meneguzzi; Nicole Chenciner; Alfredo Corallini; Ferruccio Poli; Giuseppe Altavilla; Saverio Alberti; Gabriele Milanesi; Giuseppe Barbanti-Brodano BK virus (BKV) DNA sequences were not detected in 142 human tumors analyzed by DNA-DNA reassociation kinetics and blot...

...Shakuntala Chauhan; Gerasimos Lecatsas; Eric H. Harley DNA from a third isolate of the WW strain of BK virus was prepared from human urine and was cloned into the Bam HI site of pBR.322. Restriction mapping showed a number of changes relative to the prototype BK viral DNA, including the presence...