Excretion into bile of a novel unenveloped DNA virus (TT virus) associated with acute and chronic non-A-G hepatitis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1245-1248

  Ukita, Masato ^a,b,c   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a,b,c   Kato, Naomi ^a,b,c   Miyakawa, Yuzo ^a,b,c   Mayumi, Makoto ^a,b,c  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^c Miyakawa Memorial Research Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA VIRUS; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BILE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; FECES; HEPATITIS VIRUSES; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIREMIA;

EID: 0033005031     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314716     Document Type: Article

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