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Fecal excretion of a novel human circovirus, TT virus, in healthy children.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Nov 2000
Lin C L, Kyono W, Tongson J, Chua P K, Easa D, Yanagihara R, Nerurkar V R
Abstract excerpt
The role of TT virus (TTV) as a human pathogen is unclear, as is the mode of TTV transmission. To determine the prevalence of TTV infection and the possible fecal-oral route of transmission, we analyzed fecal specimens from 67 healthy, nontransfused children for TTV DNA sequences by heminested PCR, using the NG and T primer sets. The overall prevalence of TTV fecal excretion was 22.4% (15 of 67), with the T...
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