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Novel TTV variants isolated in an epidemic of hepatitis of unknown etiology.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 2002
Liu Zhihua, Luo Kangxian, Zheng Ruidan, Hu Jing, He Haitang
Abstract excerpt
TT virus (TTV) is a recently discovered single-stranded DNA virus that has been reported to be associated with elevated transminase levels in the patients with posttransfusion hepatitis of unknown etiology. TTV prevalence is very high in the common population and its pathogenicity remains unclear. In this study, we performed an epidemiological study to investigate the infection rate of TTV and its role in an...
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