Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a renal transplant patient diagnosed by JCV-specific DNA amplification and an intrathecal humoral immune response to recombinant virus protein 1

Nephrol Dial Transplant. 1999 Feb;14(2):462-5. doi: 10.1093/ndt/14.2.462.

Authors

B Berner¹, D H Krieter, K W Rumpf, R W Grunewald, W Beuche, T Weber, G A Müller

Affiliation

¹ Zentrum Innere Medizin, Abteilung Nephrologie und Rheumatologie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.

PMID: 10069215
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.2.462

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Antibodies, Viral / immunology
Antibody Formation
Cerebrospinal Fluid / immunology
Cerebrospinal Fluid / virology
DNA, Viral / genetics
Humans
Immunoassay*
JC Virus / genetics
JC Virus / immunology
JC Virus / metabolism
Kidney Transplantation*
Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal / cerebrospinal fluid
Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal / diagnosis*
Leukoencephalopathy, Progressive Multifocal / virology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Polymerase Chain Reaction*
Postoperative Complications / diagnosis*
Recombinant Proteins
Viral Proteins / administration & dosage
Viral Proteins / immunology

Substances

Antibodies, Viral
DNA, Viral
Recombinant Proteins
Viral Proteins