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Case Reports
. 2018 Dec 7;13(12):1893-1896.
doi: 10.2215/CJN.04080318. Epub 2018 Sep 21.

BK Virus Nephropathy

Deirdre Sawinski  1 , Jennifer Trofe-Clark  1   2
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Case Reports

BK Virus Nephropathy

Deirdre Sawinski et al. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: BK; BK Virus; Kidney Diseases; Polyomavirus Infections; kidney transplantation.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Proposed algorithm for the management of kidney transplant recipients with BK viremia or BK nephropathy. IVIG, intravenous immunoglobulin; LC-MS/MS, liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry; rATG, rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin.
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