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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2005, p. 1385-1386, Vol. 43, No. 3
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1385-1386.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

BK and JC Polyomaviruses Are Not Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

G. W. Procop,1* D. J. Kohn,1 J. E. Johnson,2 H. J. Li,3 J. E. Loyd,3 B. Yen-Lieberman,1 and Y. W. Tang2,3

Section of Clinical Microbiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio,1 Departments of Medicine,3 Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee2

Received 18 October 2004/ Accepted 23 November 2004

We sought to determine if the BK and JC polyomaviruses were associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We did not detect the BK or JC polyomaviruses in lung tissue extracts from 33 patients with IPF by using real-time PCR, which suggests that an etiologic association is unlikely.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Clinical Microbiology/L40, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44195. Phone: (216) 444-5879. Fax: (216) 445-6984. E-mail: procopg{at}ccf.org.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2005, p. 1385-1386, Vol. 43, No. 3
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.3.1385-1386.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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