Detection rates of TT virus DNA in serum of umbilical cord blood, breast milk and saliva

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 203-207

  Goto, Kenji ^a   Sugiyama, Kohachiro ^a   Ando, Toshihiro ^a   Mizutani, Fumihiko ^a   Terabe, Koji ^a   Tanaka, Keisuke ^b   Nishiyama, Masato ^b   Wada, Yoshiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Yonaha General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BREAST MILK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SALIVA; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SALIVA; TORQUE TENO VIRUS;

EID: 0034252169     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.191.203     Document Type: Article

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