High prevalence of TT virus (TTV) in naive chimpanzees and in hepatitis C virus-infected humans: Frequent mixed infections and identification of new TTV genotypes in chimpanzees

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1001-1007

  Romeo, Raffaella ^a,b   Hegerich, Patricia ^a   Emerson, Suzanne U ^a   Colombo, Massimo ^b   Purcell, Robert H ^a   Bukh, Jens ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FECES; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; TT VIRUS;

EID: 0034080847     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-4-1001     Document Type: Article

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