This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Polyomavirus infections' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

BK polyomavirus is a major source of kidney damage and rejection in transplant recipients. But a novel way has been found to decrease BK polyomavirus levels in transplant patients without decreasing ...

While uncommon, BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy is associated with a "substantial" risk of graft loss in kidney transplant recipients. BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy may increase the ...

What diagnostic procedures should be done on follow-up of a patient who lost renal function after a verified polyomavirus infection in a renal graft, and when should these procedures be performed? Is ...

A benign virus normally found in the skin can lead to a type of rare, lethal skin cancer. Specifically, infection by the Merkel cell polyomavirus can lead to Merkel cell carcinoma in ...

From July 2001 to April 2004, we used leflunomide as the initial antiviral therapy in 17 patients with biopsy-proven BK nephropathy. All but one of these patients was receiving tacrolimus, prednisone, ...

Background: A 36-year-old white female, who had received a deceased-donor kidney transplant for end-stage renal disease secondary to reflux nephropathy 8 years previously, was referred to a transplant ...

The multiple-stage process of cancer development is driven by genetic and epigenetic events. Cancer can also be associated with virus infection, for instance, with members of the small DNA tumor virus ...

It has recently been shown that Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and often lethal cutaneous malignancy, frequently harbors a novel clonally integrated polyomavirus aptly named Merkel cell polyomavirus.

If every cell in our body is a factory, viruses are industrial spies who try to break in and take over. New findings about how one of the most mysterious types of spy - polyomaviruses -- accomplishes ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Every cell in our body runs like a tiny factory that makes specialized products, using the carefully guarded instructions kept in the CEO's office. But every once in a while, an ...