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BK Virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Douglas A. Holt,
John T. Sinnott IV,
Richard L. Oehler and
Elizabeth A. Bradley
Douglas A. Holt
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
John T. Sinnott IV*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
Richard L. Oehler
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
Elizabeth A. Bradley
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
*
The Tampa General Hospital, P.O. Box 1289, Tampa, FL 33601
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In 1970, a new papovavirus was isolated from both urine and the ureteral epithelium of a renal allograft recipient with ureteral obstruction. The virus was found to be a member of the polyoma subgroup of the Papovaviridae that was unlike any previously described. The new isolate was given the name BK virus after the initials of the renal transplant patient from whom it was cultured.

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Topics in Clinical Microbiology
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 1992, pp. 738 - 741
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992 

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