Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #nephverse
Most recents (1)
1/Hello everyone! Welcome to this month’s #ASPNFOAM group Tweetorial, featuring BK polyomavirus (BKV) & #BKNephropathy
🚨Spoiler alert: BK does not stand for Burger King🍔. But hopefully this 🧵 has been cooked up to your liking😉.
#Medtwitter #NephTwitter #PedNeph @ASPNeph
🚨Spoiler alert: BK does not stand for Burger King🍔. But hopefully this 🧵 has been cooked up to your liking😉.
#Medtwitter #NephTwitter #PedNeph @ASPNeph
2.1/ So what’s “BK” & why can’t you have it with a side of🍟?
“BK” actually stands for B.K., the initials of the Sudanese🇸🇩 kidney transplant (KT) patient in whom the virus was 1st identified back in 1971! Not that long ago if you think about it 🤔
(PMID: 4104714, 33319201)
“BK” actually stands for B.K., the initials of the Sudanese🇸🇩 kidney transplant (KT) patient in whom the virus was 1st identified back in 1971! Not that long ago if you think about it 🤔
(PMID: 4104714, 33319201)
2.2/Also:
➤BKV is a non-enveloped double-strand DNA virus.
➤Primary infection occurs through respiratory secretions, mainly asymptomatic.
➤It infects urothelial and tubular cells in a non-replicative latent phase.
➤BKV is a non-enveloped double-strand DNA virus.
➤Primary infection occurs through respiratory secretions, mainly asymptomatic.
➤It infects urothelial and tubular cells in a non-replicative latent phase.
