BK virus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A virus very similar to JC virus, ubiquitous and rarely causing disease in healthy people but creating urogenital problems in the immunosuppressed.

Word forms

BK virus BK viruses

Etymology

From the initials B.K., pertaining to a renal transplant patient whose urine the virus was first isolated from in 1971.

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