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Volume 20, Number 6—June 2014
Research

Human Polyomavirus 9 Infection in Kidney Transplant Patients

Els van der MeijdenComments to Author , Herman F. Wunderink, Caroline S. van der Blij-de Brouwer, Hans L. Zaaijer, Joris I. Rotmans, Jan Nico Bouwes Bavinck, and Mariet C.W. Feltkamp
Author affiliations: Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (E. van der Meijden, H.F. Wunderink, C.S. van der Blij-de Brouwer, J.I. Rotmans, J.N. Bouwes Bavinck, M.C.W. Feltkamp); Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (H.L. Zaaijer)

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Table 1

Characteristics of patients and controls for study of human polyomavirus 9 prevalence among kidney transplant patients, the Netherlands*

Characteristic Transplant patient type
 Blood donors
All Kidney Kidney–pancreas p value
Patients and controls 101 83 (82) 18 (18) 87
Mean age, y (range)
 47 (21–74)
 48 (21–74)
 43 (30–54)
 0.129†
 52 (29–68)
Sex
F 34 (34) 27 (33) 7 (39) 0.605‡ 31 (36)
M 67 (66) 56 (67) 11(61) 56 (64)

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated.
†Comparison of kidney and kidney–pancreas patient groups; Student t test.
‡Comparison of kidney and kidney–pancreas patient groups; χ2 test.

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