Emerging paradigms in the renal pathology of viral diseases.
This review considers recent information that illuminates pathogenetic mechanisms that involve three of the major viral infections that cause renal injury in the form of HIV-associated nephropathy, polyoma virus nephropathy, and hepatitis C virus-associated glomerulonephritis.
Alpers
Charles E
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Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. calp@u.washington.edu
Kowalewska
Jolanta
J
D016263:AIDS-Associated Nephropathy / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D000818:Animals; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology*; D027601:Polyomavirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology