Infection with an unenveloped DNA virus (TTV) associated with posttransfusion non-A to G hepatitis in hepatitis patients and healthy blood donors in Thailand

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 234-238

  Tanaka, Hiroto ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^b   Luengrojanakul, Pairoj ^c   Chainuvati, Termchai ^c   Tsuda, Fumio ^d   Tanaka, Takeshi ^e   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^f   Mayumi, Makoto ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^e JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^f Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis; Genotypes; Hepatitis viruses; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA VIRUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THAILAND; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS VIRUSES; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; THAILAND;

DNA VIRUSES; GB VIRUS C/HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NON-A, NON-B HEPATITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0031687536     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199811)56:3<234::AID-JMV10>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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