TT Virus Infection Is Widespread in the General Populations from Different Geographic Regions

199998 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Kenji Abe

Tomoko Inami

Kazue Asano · Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital

Chiaki Miyoshi · Bureau of International Cooperation

Naohiko Masaki · Saitama International Medical Center

Shigeki Hayashi · Saitama International Medical Center

Ko-ichi Ishikawa · Infectious Disease Research Institute

Yutaka Takebe

Abstract

By PCR screening, we found an extremely high prevalence of TT virus (TTV) in the general populations from different geographic regions. This suggests that TTV may be a common DNA virus with no clear disease association in humans. TTV genotyping by phylogenetic analysis was also performed.

Topics & Keywords

Animal Virus Infections Studies Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Virus-based gene therapy research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volume 37, Issue 8, pp. 2703-2705

DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.8.2703-2705.1999

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 13.34