BK virus

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Etymology[edit]

From the initials B.K., pertaining to a renal transplant patient whose urine the virus was first isolated from in 1971.

Noun[edit]

BK virus (plural BK viruses)

  1. A virus very similar to JC virus, ubiquitous and rarely causing disease in healthy people but creating urogenital problems in the immunosuppressed.

Synonyms[edit]

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