Prevalence and clinical significance of SEN virus infection in patients with non A-E hepatitis and volunteer blood donors in Shanghai

• Published in: World journal of gastroenterology : WJG Vol. 14; no. 26; pp. 4204 - 4208
• Main Authors: Tang, Zheng-Hao, Chen, Xiao-Hua, Yu, Yong-Sheng, Zang, Guo-Qing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Department of Infectious Diseases, Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200233, China 14.07.2008; The WJG Press and Baishideng
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Base Sequence; Blood Donors; DNA, Viral - analysis; Female; Hepatitis, Viral, Human - virology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Molecular Sequence Data; Prevalence; Rapid Communication; SEN病毒; Torque teno virus - isolation & purification; 流行病学调查; 献血者; Nested PCR; SEN virus; Non A-E hepatitis; Blood donor

AIM： To explore the prevalence of SEN virus （SENV） in patients with non A-E hepatitis and volunteer blood donors in Shanghai. METHODS： According to the published gene sequences, primers from the conserved region were designed. Then, the prevalence of SEN virus in 30 samples from healthy voluntary bl...