What is it about?
A common and usually harmless resident virus can be dangerous when reactivated under certain conditions. However, a load of the virus in body fluids and its genetic properties matter a lot.
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Why is it important?
The virus is reactivated when the subject is immunocompromised, however here we see that unknown conditions and /or prevalent lifestyle of the tribal people working in tea gardens may also contribute to the viral reactivation.
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This page is a summary of: Quantification of human polyomavirus JC virus load in urine and blood samples of healthy tribal populations of North-Eastern part of West Bengal, India, Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, January 2015, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.167345.
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