Natural history of the TT virus infection through follow-up of TTV DNA- positive multiple-transfused patients

Blood

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 347-361

  Lefrère, Jean Jacques ^a   Roudot Thoraval, Françoise ^b   Lefrère, François ^b   Kanfer, Alain ^b   Mariotti, Martine ^b   Lerable, Joelle ^b   Thauvin, Micheline ^b   Lefèvre, Guillaume ^b   Rouger, Philippe ^b   Girot, Robert ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS DNA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

EID: 0033979543     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v95.1.347.001k42_347_351     Document Type: Article

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