Detection rates of TT virus among children who visited a general hospital in Japan

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 405-407

  Goto, Kenji ^a   Sugiyama, Kohachiro ^a   Terabe, Koji ^a   Mizutani, Fumihiko ^a   Wada, Yoshiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA virus; Phylogenetic analysis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DNA VIRUS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENETIC DISTANCE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DNA VIRUSES; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0033017531     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199904)57:4<405::AID-JMV13>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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