Prevalence of the newly described human circovirus, TTV, in United States blood donors

Transfusion

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-251

  Handa, Atsushi ^a,b   Dickstein, B ^a   Young, N S ^a   Brown, K E ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CIRCOVIRIDAE; DNA VIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OPEN READING FRAME; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; VIREMIA;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD; BLOOD DONORS; DNA VIRUSES; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033952488     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40020245.x     Document Type: Article

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