High prevalence of TT virus viremia in italian patients, regardless of age, clinical diagnosis, and previous interferon treatment

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 838-842

  Maggi, Fabrizio ^a   Fornai, Claudia ^a   Morrica, Antonietta ^a   Casula, Francesca ^a   Vatteroni, Maria Linda ^a   Marchi, Santino ^a   Ciccorossi, Pietro ^a   Riente, Lucrezia ^a   Pistello, Mauro ^a   Bendinelli, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA VIRUS; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFANT; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIREMIA; VIRUS TYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; FEMALE; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VIREMIA;

EID: 0032827627     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314961     Document Type: Article

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