Everything about BK

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BKA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney TransplantationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Prospective Study of Polyomavirus Type BK Replication and Nephropathy in Renal-Transplant RecipientsCited 1,041 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Prospective Study of Polyomavirus Type BK Replication and Nephropathy in Renal-Transplant Recipients

  Hans H. Hirsch, Wendy Knowles, Michael Dickenmann · 2002 · New England Journal of Medicine · 1,041 citations

• Prevalence of Polyomavirus BK and JC Infection and Replication in 400 Healthy Blood Donors

  Adrian Egli, Laura Infanti, Alexis Dumoulin · 2009 · The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 722 citations

• Polyomavirus BK

  Hans H Hirsch, Jürg Steiger · 2003 · The Lancet Infectious Diseases · 651 citations

• Incidence of BK with Tacrolimus Versus Cyclosporine and Impact of Preemptive Immunosuppression Reduction

  Daniel C. Brennan, Irfan Agha, Daniel L. Bohl · 2005 · American Journal of Transplantation · 611 citations

• BK Polyomavirus in Solid Organ Transplantation

  H.H. Hirsch, P. Randhawa · 2013 · American Journal of Transplantation · 489 citations

• Coupling between Voltage Sensor Activation, Ca2+ Binding and Channel Opening in Large Conductance (BK) Potassium Channels

  Frank T. Horrigan, Richard W. Aldrich · 2002 · The Journal of General Physiology · 489 citations

• Off-the-Shelf Virus-Specific T Cells to Treat BK Virus, Human Herpesvirus 6, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr Virus, and Adenovirus Infections After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

  Ifigeneia Tzannou, Anastasia Papadopoulou, Swati Naik · 2017 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 443 citations

• BK polyomavirus in solid organ transplantation—Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice

  Hans H. Hirsch, Parmjeet S. Randhawa, AST Infectious Diseases Community of Practice · 2019 · Clinical Transplantation · 428 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplantation

  Camille N. Kotton, Nassim Kamar, David Wojciechowski · 2024 · Transplantation · 204 citations

• BK Virus Nephropathy in Kidney Transplantation: A State-of-the-Art Review

  Sam Kant, Alana Dasgupta, Serena Bagnasco · 2022 · Viruses · 102 citations

• Characteristics of the new multiple rogue wave solutions to the fractional generalized CBS-BK equation

  Mingchen Zhang, Xing Xie, Jalil Manafian · 2022 · Journal of Advanced Research · 70 citations

• Structural and Functional Coupling of Calcium-Activated BK Channels and Calcium-Permeable Channels Within Nanodomain Signaling Complexes

  Kunal R. Shah, Xin Guan, Jiusheng Yan · 2022 · Frontiers in Physiology · 48 citations

• Ca2+- and Voltage-Activated K+ (BK) Channels in the Nervous System: One Gene, a Myriad of Physiological Functions

  Carlos Ancatén-González, Ignacio Segura, Rosangelina Alvarado-Sánchez · 2023 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 47 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis · 1950
• The Valley of HorsesJean M. Auel · 1899
• A Wizard of EarthseaUrsula K. Le Guin · 1968
• Men at ArmsTerry Pratchett · 1993
• New perspectives on computer conceptsJune Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja · 1994
• Creating motion graphics with After EffectsTrish Meyer, Chris Meyer · 2002
• Computer science illuminatedNell B. Dale, Nell Dale · 2002
• The mind toolNeill Graham · 1976

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