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bk virus

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables
bk virus
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A virus very similar to JC virus, ubiquitous and rarely causing disease in healthy people but creating urogenital problems in the immunosuppressed.

Etymology

From the initials B.K., pertaining to a renal transplant patient whose urine the virus was first isolated from in 1971.

Inflected Forms

BK viruses (plural)

Synonyms

BKV BK polyomavirus BKPyV

Questions

What does bk virus mean?
A virus very similar to JC virus, ubiquitous and rarely causing disease in healthy people but creating urogenital problems in the immunosuppressed.
Where does bk virus come from?
From the initials B.K., pertaining to a renal transplant patient whose urine the virus was first isolated from in 1971.

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