Article
Fecal excretion of a nonenveloped DNA virus (TTV) associated with posttransfusion non-A-G hepatitis.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 1998
Okamoto H, Akahane Y, Ukita M, Fukuda M, Tsuda F, Miyakawa Y, Mayumi M
Abstract excerpt
Five patients with type B or C hepatocellular carcinoma were found to be infected with a nonenveloped DNA virus (TTV) associated with posttransfusion hepatitis of non-A-G etiology. Paired feces and serum samples from these patients were tested for TTV DNA by polymerase chain reaction with semines...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Centrifugation, Density Gradient
- DNA Virus Infections
- DNA Viruses
- DNA, Viral
- Feces
- Genotype
- Hepatitis, Viral, Human
- Humans
- Liver Neoplasms
- Molecular Sequence Data