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No drugs effectively inhibit or cure the virus infection without toxicity. Therefore, treatment aims at reversing the immune deficiency to slow or stop the disease progress. In patients on immunosuppression, this means stopping the drugs or using plasma exchange to accelerate the removal of the biologic agent that put the person at risk for PML ...
Human polyomavirus 2, commonly referred to as the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, is a type of human polyomavirus (formerly known as papovavirus). [3] It was identified by electron microscopy in 1965 by ZuRhein and Chou, [ 4 ] and by Silverman and Rubinstein.
Diseases caused by human polyomavirus infections are most common among immunocompromised people; disease associations include BK virus with nephropathy in renal transplant and non-renal solid organ transplant patients, [8] [9] JC virus with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, [10] and Merkel cell virus (MCV) with Merkel cell cancer. [11]
Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV or MCPyV) was first described in January 2008 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] It was the first example of a human viral pathogen discovered using unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing with a technique called digital transcriptome subtraction. [2]
Respiratory syncytial virus infection A variety of laboratory tests Treatment for RSV infection is focused primarily on supportive care. Under research [33] Rhinosporidium seeberi: Rhinosporidiosis: No Rhinovirus: Rhinovirus infection No Rickettsia species Rickettsial infection No Rickettsia akari: Rickettsialpox: No Rift Valley fever virus ...
Human polyomavirus 2 (also known as JC virus) is known to cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). [36] [37] Human herpesvirus 8 (also known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus) is a virus associated with Kaposi sarcoma, a type of cancer. [38] [39]
Glioblastoma multiforme is associated with cytomegalovirus, [11] BK virus, JC virus, and simian virus 40. [12] Breast cancer is associated with mouse mammary tumor virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and human papillomaviruses. [13] Carcinoid tumors are associated with enterovirus infections. [14] Cervical cancer can be caused by human papillomaviruses ...
The BK virus, also known as Human polyomavirus 1, is a member of the polyomavirus family. Past infection with the BK virus is widespread, [1] but significant consequences of infection are uncommon, with the exception of the immunocompromised and the immunosuppressed. BK virus is an abbreviation of the name of the first patient, from whom the ...