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. 1999 Aug;37(8):2703-5.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.37.8.2703-2705.1999.

TT virus infection is widespread in the general populations from different geographic regions

K Abe  1 , T Inami, K Asano, C Miyoshi, N Masaki, S Hayashi, K i Ishikawa, Y Takebe, K M Win, A R El-Zayadi, K H Han, D Y Zhang
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TT virus infection is widespread in the general populations from different geographic regions

K Abe et al. J Clin Microbiol. 1999 Aug.

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.

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FIG. 1
Phylogram generated by neighbor-joining analysis of genetic distances in the ORF1 region of TTV isolates. Isolates determined in this study are presented in boldface. The database-derived isolates and their accession numbers were as follows: G97801 (AB011486), TA278 (AB008394), G103301 (AB011487), N22 (AB017767), G10491 (AB011489), TY96117 (AB011494), G88801 (AB011491), G102001 (AB011488), G105001 (AB011490), TS003 (AB017770), NA004 (AB017771), PT3 (AB017768), AF079541 (AF079541), AF079542 (AF079542), AF079543 (AF079543), COL139 (AB01635), JaM21 (AB017887), JaNBNC10 (AB018961), JaM28 (AB017888), and JaM18 (AB017886). UK, United Kingdom; USA, United States of America.
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