NEW HUMAN PAPOVAVIRUS (B.K.) ISOLATED FROM URINE AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION

Abstract

The isolation of a new papovavirus Summary from the urine of a renal allograft recipient with ureteric obstruction is described. Virus particles were observed in the cells lining the ureter by electron microscopy, and high, rising antibody titres to the virus were demonstrated in the patient's serum. This virus is not identical with any of the previously described members of the polyoma subgroup and has provisionally been named B.K. virus after the patient.