Fecal excretion of a nonenveloped DNA virus (TTV) associated with posttransfusion non-A-G hepatitis

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 128-132

  Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Akahane, Yoshihiro ^b   Ukita, Masato ^a   Fukuda, Masako ^c   Tsuda, Fumio ^d   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^e   Mayumi, Makoto ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c Institute of Immunology Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d Toshiba General Hospital   (Japan)

^e Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feces; Genotypes; Hepatitis viruses; Parvoviridae infections

Indexed keywords

CESIUM CHLORIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARVOVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; FECES; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031689829     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199810)56:2<128::AID-JMV5>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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