Tıp Fakültesi / Faculty of Medicine
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Item The African Variant of BKV in A Turkish Renal Transplant Patient(2014) Colakoglu, Sule; Dursun, Hasan; Cengiz, Nurcan; Bulat, Meryem Cosar; Noyan, Aytul; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8817-494X; 24726687; AAB-7105-2020; GPX-7059-2022; AAD-5713-2021In renal transplant recipients, BK polyomavirus (BKV) is linked to nephropathy. BK virus genotypes have a strong geographic component. This paper presents the African variant of BKV in a Turkish renal transplant patient, which is a rare cause of infection in the Northern Hemisphere and, to our knowledge, the first case from Turkey. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.