New prevalence estimate of Torque Teno virus(TTV) infection in healthy population and patients with chronic viral hepatitis in Jiujiang, China

• Published in: Virologica Sinica Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 218 - 220
• Main Authors: Peng, Jin, Fang, Yueyue, Zhao, Xuesen, Peng, Yihong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wuhan Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS 01.06.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Biochemistry; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Blood Donors; China - epidemiology; Chronic Disease; circular; classified; comparable; DNA; DNA Virus Infections - epidemiology; DNA Virus Infections - virology; DNA, Viral - genetics; DNA, Viral - isolation & purification; etiology; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Hepatitis, Viral, Human - complications; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Letter; Male; Medical Microbiology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Middle Aged; Oncology; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Prevalence; serological; stranded; Torque teno virus - genetics; Torque teno virus - isolation & purification; transfusion; transmitted; Virology; Young Adult; China; Chronic Viral Hepatitis; Torque Teno Virus; VIROLOGICA SINICA; Healthy Infant; Healthy Adult
• ISSN: 1674-0769; 1995-820X
• DOI: 10.1007/s12250-014-3531-x

<正>Dear Editor,Torque Teno virus(TTV)is a nonenveloped human DNA virus that was isolated from the serum of a patient with transfusion-transmitted hepatitis with unknown etiology in 1997(Nishizawa et al.,1997).TTV is the first human virus with a single-stranded circular DNA genome to be identified,and is recently classified as the Alphatorquevirus genus of the Anelloviridae family by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses(ICTV)(King et al.,2011).TTV shows very high genetic