Final year Med Student at ITESM, Mexico 🇲🇽 • Interested in pediatric subspecialties, medical education, and clinical research • Kidneys are cool 💛 •
Jun 6, 2022 • 35 tweets • 12 min read
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
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)
