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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2008 Nov 7;384(2):266–273. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.09.027

Table 1. Human Polyomaviruses and Disease.

Human Polyomavirus Date of discovery Major cell type infected Associated diseases
BKV 1971 (Gardner et al.) Kidney epithelium, Urothelium Hemorrhagic cystitis (HC), Polyomavirus nephropathy (PVN)
JCV 1971 (Padgett et al.) Kidney epithelium, Lymphocytes, Oligodendrocytes Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
KI 2007 (Allander et al.) ? ?
WU 2007 (Gaynor et al.) ? ?
MCV 2008 (Feng et al.) Merkel cells Merkel cell carcinoma