Article
[Molecular virology of TT virus].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Jun 1999
Okamoto H
Abstract excerpt
In 1997, a novel DNA virus was isolated from the serum of a patient with posttransfusion hepatitis of unknown etiology in Japan, and it was named TT virus (TTV) after the initials of the index patient. TTV is a nonenveloped, single-stranded and circular DNA virus, and its entire nucleotide sequence of 3.9 kb has been determined. For being a DNA virus, TTV has a wide range of sequence divergence, allowing the...
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