TT virus in Hungary: Sequence heterogeneity and mixed infections

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-157

  Takács, Mária ^a   Balog, Katalin ^a   Tóth, Gábor ^b   Balogh, Zsuzsanna ^a   Szomor, Katalin N ^a   Brojnás, Judit ^a   Rusvai, Erzsébet ^a   Minárovits, János ^a   Berencsi, György ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Healthy persons; Hepatitis; PCR; Sequencing; TTV genotypes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0037456645     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(03)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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