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Detection of TT virus DNA in patients with liver disease and recipients of liver transplant.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 2000
Shang D, Lin Y H, Rigopoulou I, Chen B, Alexander G J, Allain J P
Abstract excerpt
TT virus (TTV) is transfusion-transmissible but its involvement in post-transfusion hepatitis is uncertain. To investigate the potential association of TTV with liver diseases, the prevalence of TTV DNA was tested by semi-nested PCR in 113 carriers of hepatitis C virus (HCV), 10 patients with acute liver failure, 11 patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis and 200 control blood donors. Thirty-seven of these patients...
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