High prevalence of TT virus infection in Brazilian blood donors

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 259-263

  Niel, Christian ^a   De Oliveira, Jaqueline M ^a   Ross, Rudolf S ^b   Gomes, Selma A ^a   Roggendorf, Michael ^b   Viazov, Sergei ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FIOCRUZ ^*

Author keywords

Genotypes; Hepatitis; Nucleotide sequencing; Phylogenetic analysis; Polymerase chain reaction; TTV DNA

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA VIRUS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD DONORS; BRAZIL; CHILD; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0032959238     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199903)57:3<259::AID-JMV8>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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