BK virus
English
editEtymology
editFrom the initials B.K., pertaining to a renal transplant patient whose urine the virus was first isolated from in 1971.
Noun
editBK virus (plural BK viruses)
- A virus very similar to JC virus, ubiquitous and rarely causing disease in healthy people but creating urogenital problems in the immunosuppressed.
Synonyms
edit- BKV (abbreviation)
- BK polyomavirus, BKPyV