A comparative study of BK and JC virus i
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Parmjeet Randhawa; John Uhrmacher; William Pasculle; Abhay Vats; Ron Shapiro; Bi
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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JC virus (JCV) rarely causes kidney disease, whereas BK virus (BKV) is a known cause of viral nephropathy. Existing studies on prevalence of JCV in healthy and transplanted subjects have reported only qualitative detection of viral DNA. We used quantitative PCR (qPCR) to assess JC viral load in tran