Seroprevalence of fourteen human polyomaviruses determined in blood donors.

ABSTRACT: The polyomavirus family currently includes thirteen human polyomavirus (HPyV) species. In immunocompromised and elderly persons HPyVs are known to cause disease, such as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (JCPyV), haemorrhagic cystitis and nephropathy (BKPyV), Merkel cell carcinoma (MCPyV), and trichodysplasia spinulosa (TSPyV). Some recently discovered polyomaviruses are of still unknown prevalence and pathogenic potential. Because HPyVs infections persist and might be transferred by blood components to immunocompromised patients, we studied the seroprevalence of fourteen polyomaviruses in adult Dutch blood donors. For most polyomaviruses the observed seroprevalence was high (60-100%), sometimes slightly increasing or decreasing with age. Seroreactivity increased with age for JCPy

SUBMITTER: Kamminga S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6198985 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature