This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Polyomavirus infections' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Establishing an innovative class of polyomavirus antivirals spanning BK and JC virus indications CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS ...

A benign virus normally found in the skin can lead to a type of rare, lethal skin cancer. Specifically, infection by the Merkel cell polyomavirus can lead to Merkel cell carcinoma in ...

It has recently been shown that Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and often lethal cutaneous malignancy, frequently harbors a novel clonally integrated polyomavirus aptly named Merkel cell polyomavirus.

From July 2001 to April 2004, we used leflunomide as the initial antiviral therapy in 17 patients with biopsy-proven BK nephropathy. All but one of these patients was receiving tacrolimus, prednisone, ...

While uncommon, BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy is associated with a "substantial" risk of graft loss in kidney transplant recipients. BK polyomavirus-associated nephropathy may increase the ...

What diagnostic procedures should be done on follow-up of a patient who lost renal function after a verified polyomavirus infection in a renal graft, and when should these procedures be performed? Is ...

The BK polyomavirus exhibits tropism for the renal tubular epithelium, where it establishes latent infection. Vigorous immunosuppression of renal allograft recipients can lead to reactivation of the ...

Nephropathy associated with the polyomavirus type BK (BKV) nephropathy has emerged as a cause of allograft failure linked to immunosuppressive regimens containing tacrolimus or mycophenolate mofetil.

A new study shows that common mutant forms of the deadly JC polyomavirus are not responsible for the pathogen's main attack, which causes a brain-damaging disease in immunocompromised patients called ...

This section presents medications that are known to potentially lead to 'Polyomavirus-associated nephropathy' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with ...