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Seroepidemiology of TT virus infection and relationship between genotype and liver damage.
Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Nov 2000
Tanaka Y, Hayashi J, Ariyama I, Furusyo N, Etoh Y, Kashiwagi S
Abstract excerpt
TT virus (TTV) has been identified in patients with posttransfusion hepatitis of unknown etiology and is thought to be a new hepatitis virus. We determined the extent of TTV infection in the Japanese general population and the relationship between TTV DNA genotype and liver damage. In 1998, we tested 847 serum samples for TTV. TTV DNA was assayed by a nested polymerase chain reaction and classified into three...
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