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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 406-407, Vol. 38, No. 1
0095-1137/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Polyomaviruria in Renal Transplant Patients Is Not Correlated to the Cold Ischemia Period or to Rejection Episodes

P. Priftakis,1 G. Bogdanovic,1 G. Tyden,2 and T. Dalianis1,*

Division of Clinical Virology, Department of Immunology, Microbiology, Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institute,1 and Department of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska Hospital, Huddinge Hospital, Huddinge University Hospital,2 Huddinge, Sweden

Received 20 August 1999/Returned for modification 28 September 1999/Accepted 20 October 1999

Polyomaviruria was observed in one-third of all renal transplant patients, irrespective of whether their renal grafts came from a living or cadaver donor, and was not correlated to graft rejection episodes. This suggests that the renal graft ischemia period is not the major cause of polyomavirus reactivation and that reactivation of polyomavirus is not a dominant cause of graft rejection.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Clinical Immunology F79, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, 141 86 Huddinge, Sweden. Phone: 46-8-5858 1370. Fax: 46-8-5858 1390. E-mail: Tina.Dalianis{at}impi.ki.se.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2000, p. 406-407, Vol. 38, No. 1
0095-1137/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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