JC polyomavirus replication and associated disease in pediatric renal transplantation: an international CERTAIN Registry study.
Britta HöckerJulia TabatabaiLukas SchnebleJun OhFlorian ThielLars PapeKrisztina RusaiRezan TopalogluBirgitta KranzGünter KlausNikoleta PrintzaOnder YavascanAlexander FichtnerKai KrupkaThomas BrucknerRüdiger WaldherrMichael PawlitaPaul SchnitzlerHans H HirschBurkhard TönshoffPublished in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) (2018)
This first multi-center study on JCPyV in pediatric renal transplant recipients shows that JCPyV replication is common (24.5%), with strong immunosuppression being a significant risk factor, but associated nephropathy is rare.
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