BK virus

Meaning

Noun

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

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Origin

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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