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Although BK virus, JC virus, and simian virus 40 are tumorigenic in experimental animals and can transform mammalian cells in vitro, no convincing epidemiologic evidence exists for their role in human cancers.
Chapters address topics such as chemokine receptors and transplantation, measurement of intracellular cytokines to improve therapeutic monitoring of immunosuppressive drugs following lung transplantation, polyoma BK virus nephropathy in renal transplant recipients, immunobiology of xenograft rejection, and the role of viruses in allograft rejection.
More specifically, several small studies failed to detect the human polyomaviruses JC virus and BK virus in leukemia cells or stored newborn (Guthrie) blood spots (MacKenzie et al.
 
 
 
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