History of discoveries and pathogenicity of TT viruses

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 331, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-20

  Okamoto, H ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANELLOVIRUS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ASTHMA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA VIRUS; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; NEWBORN HEPATITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINITIS; TORQUE TENO MIDI VIRUS; TORQUE TENO MINI VIRUS; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; VIREMIA;

ANELLOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; TORQUE TENO VIRUS; TTV-LIKE MINI VIRUS;

EID: 58349087658     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70972-5_1     Document Type: Review

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