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TT virus genotype changes frequently in multiply transfused patients with hemophilia but rarely in patients with chronic hepatitis C and in healthy subjects.
Transfusion - 1 Sept 2001
Toyoda H, Fukuda Y, Nakano I, Katano Y, Yokozaki S, Hayashi K, Ito Y, Suzuki K, Nakano H, Saito H, Takamatsu J
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BACKGROUND: TT virus (TTV), a novel DNA virus, was originally thought to be transmitted by transfusion. However, nonparenteral transmission is recently suspected to be a major mode of transmission. To investigate the possibility of reinfection with TTV in multiply transfused patients and to evaluate the significance of transfusion transmission of TTV in patients with hemophilia, serial changes in TTV genotype...
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