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TT virus in Hungary: sequence heterogeneity and mixed infections.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 20 Mar 2003
Takács Mária, Balog Katalin, Tóth Gábor, Balogh Zsuzsanna, Szomor Katalin N, Brojnás Judit, Rusvai Erzsébet, Minárovits János, Berencsi György
Abstract excerpt
The majority of the viral hepatitis cases is caused by five hepatitis viruses (A,B,C,D,E). In 1997, TT virus was discovered. It was supposed that a number of the unknown hepatitis cases was caused by the TT virus. The aim of this study was to characterize TT viruses carried by healthy individuals and patients suffering from hepatitis of unknown origin in Hungary. TTV DNA was detected by seminested PCR with the...
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