BKV-infection in kidney graft dysfunction

INTRODUCTION: BKV nephropathy (BKN) causes kidney graft loss, whose specific diagnosis is invasive and might be predicted by the early detection of active viral infection. OBJECTIVE: Determine the BKV-infection prevalence in late kidney graft dysfunction by urinary decoy cell (DC) and viral DNA dete...

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Main Authors: Juliana Montagner, Tatiana Michelon, Barbara Fontanelle, Alexandre Oliveira, Janaina Silveira, Regina Schroeder, Jorge Neumann, Elizete Keitel, Claudio Osmar Pereira Alexandre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
PCR
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702010000200010&lng=en&tlng=en