title: Investigations on the presence of antibodies to papova viruses in patients with different forms of cancer and in other categories of patients or apparently healthy subjects. Note III. Hemagglutination-inhibiting serum antibodies to polyoma virus.
abstract: Hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies to polyoma virus could be detected in sera from apparently healthy subjects, patients with nonmalignant respiratory diseases and patients with different forms of cancer. The positivity percentages (12.97, 12.92 and 16.36, respectively) and the titers recorded were lower than in the case of BK virus. The results obtained suggest a slight antigenic relationship between polyoma and BK virus.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D011120:Polyomavirus / Q000276:immunology*; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D012383:Romania
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral