High prevalence of TT virus infection in healthy children and adults and in patients with liver disease in Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1829-1831

  Hsieh, Sen Yung ^a,b   Wu, Yin Hua ^a,b   Ho, Yu Pin ^a   Tsao, Kuo Chien ^a   Yeh, Chau Ting ^a   Liaw, Yun Fan ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFANT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NEWBORN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; VIREMIA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

DNA VIRUSES; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0032906807     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.1829-1831.1999     Document Type: Article

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