Blood Safety
"TT-Virus Infection in North American Blood Donors, Patients with Fulminant Hepatic Failure, and Cryptogenic Cirrhosis."
Published in Blood Weekly, October 12th, 1998
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Hepatology, "A novel DNA virus, TT-virus (TTV), has been reported in patients with non-A-G post-transfusion hepatitis in Japan. We sought to determine whether TTV infection occurs in North American blood donors and to further determine the prevalence of TTV infection in several groups of patients with liver disease, including patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis and idiopathic fulminant hepatic failure. TTV infection was sought by detection of TTV DNA in serum by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers generated from a conserved region of the TTV genome. Blood donors, patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis, idiopathic...
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Source: Blood Weekly (1998-10-12)
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