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BK virus
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English
Etymology
From the initials B.K., pertaining to a renal transplant patient whose urine the virus was first isolated from in 1971.
Noun
A virus very similar to JC virus, ubiquitous and rarely causing disease in healthy people but creating urogenital problems in the immunosuppressed.
Synonyms
en BKV abbreviation
en BK polyomavirus, en BKPyV
en Viruses
en eponyms