TTV infection in patients with acute hepatitis of defined aetiology and in acute non-A-E hepatitis

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 661-665

  Fabris, Paolo ^a,e   Biasin, Maria Raffaella ^b   Infantolino, Domenico ^b   Tositti, Giulia ^a   Venza, Enzo ^b   Floreani, Annarosa ^c   Zanetti, Alessandro ^d   Lalla, Fausto De ^a  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Castelfranco Veneto Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e Paolo Fabris   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; HBV; HCV; HEV; Non A E hepatitis; TTV

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DNA VIRUS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATITIS NON A NON B; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0034108839     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(00)80229-9     Document Type: Article

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