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 2010-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867010700325