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TT virus as a human pathogen: significance and problems.
Virus genes - 1 Jan 2000
Springfeld C, Bugert J J, Schnitzler P, Tobiasch E, Kehm R, Darai G
Abstract excerpt
In 1997 TTV was detected using representational difference analysis (RDA) in serum of a patient with posttransfusion hepatitis unrelated to known hepatitis viruses. The genome of TTV is a circular single-stranded DNA molecule of 3852 nt with negative polarity. TTV possibly can be grouped either into the existing family Circoviridae or into a recently established virus family "Circinoviridae". Analysis of the...
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