Visualization of TT virus particles recovered from the sera and feces of infected humans

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 718-724

  Itoh, Yukio ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^b   Fukuda, Masako ^a   Shibayama, Takao ^c   Ishikawa, Takashi ^b   Tsuda, Fumio ^d   Tanaka, Takeshi ^e   Nishizawa, Tsutomu ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^b  

^a Institute of Immunology Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^e JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoyant density; Immune complex; Immune electron microscopy; Immunoprecipitation; TT virus

Indexed keywords

CESIUM CHLORIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SUPERNATANT; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TITRATION;

EID: 0034694923     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.4013     Document Type: Article

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