TT virus infections among blood donors in Iceland: Prevalence, genotypes, and lack of relationship to serum ALT levels

Transfusion

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 306-309

  Löve, Arthur ^a   Stanzeit, B ^b   Li, L ^b   Olafsdottir E ^b   Gudmundsson, S ^b   Briem, H ^b   Widell, A ^b  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEROLOGY; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BLOOD DONORS; CHILD; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA VIRUSES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ICELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0034107993     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40030306.x     Document Type: Article

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