JC virus in transplant patients may cause neurologic symptoms.(Nephrology)(Brief Article)

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BOSTON -- JC virus, a human polyomavirus known to promote neurologic disease, may lurk in a quarter of all kidney transplant patients suspected of harboring a BK polyomavirus infection, said Pradip Manna, Ph.D., in a poster at the American Transplant Congress.

Dr. Manna warned that JC virus infection could...

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