TT virus infection in patients with chronic liver disease of unknown etiology

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 392-398

  Nishiguchi, Shuhei ^a   Enomoto, Masaru ^a   Shiomi, Susumu ^a   Tanaka, Motoharu ^a   Fukuda, Katsuhiko ^a   Tamori, Akihiro ^a   Tanaka, Takashi ^a   Takeda, Tadashi ^a   Seki, Shuichi ^a   Yano, Yoshihisa ^a   Otani, Shuzo ^a   Kuroki, Tetsuo ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circinoviridae; Genotypes; Hepatitis viruses; TTV

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSFUSION-TRANSMITTED VIRUS;

DNA VIRUSES; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0033804298     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9071(200011)62:3<392::AID-JMV12>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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