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TT virus infection among IVDUs in south western China.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 1999
Cao K, Mizokami M, Orito E, Ding X, Ge X M, Huang G Y, Ueda R
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate the prevalence and clinical implications of infection with the newly described TT virus (TTV) among intravenous drug users (IVDUs) in Yunnan, southwest China, serum samples from 158 IVDUs (129 M, 29 F; mean age 26.1 +/- 5.5 years) were examined for TTV DNA by semi-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers derived from the open reading frame (ORFI) of TTV DNA. The seroprevalence of viral...
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