Prevalence of TTV DNA and GBV-C RNA in patients with systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoarthritis does not differ from that in healthy blood donors

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 806-809

  Seemayer, C A ^a   Viazov, S ^b   Neidhart, M ^a   Bruhlmann P ^a   Michel, B A ^a   Gay, R E ^a   Roggendorf, M ^b   Gay, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD DONORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TORQUE TENO VIRUS;

EID: 0034933715     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.60.8.806     Document Type: Article

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