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Infection of TT virus in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Dec 2001
Bando M, Ohno S, Oshikawa K, Takahashi M, Okamoto H, Sugiyama Y
Abstract excerpt
The precipitating factors of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have not been elucidated. Recently, a novel DNA virus named TTvirus (TTV) was discovered in a patient with post-transfusion hepatitis of unknown aetiology TTV is a circular, single-stranded DNA virus of 3.8 kB. To evaluate the relationship between TTV and IPF, the sera of 33 patients with IPF were tested for the presence of TTV DNA by semi-nested...
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