TT Virus

Genome Differences Suggest Genetic Complexity of Virus

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 22nd, 2000

TT virus remains a mystery to the world of science. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that genetic complexity suggesting similar but different TT virus species is one reason for this.

"TT virus (TTV) is a recently discovered infectious agent originally obtained from transfusion-related hepatitis. However, the causative link between the TTV infection and liver diseases remains uncertain," explained the CDC researchers in the Journal of Virology (Khudyakov, Y.E., et al., "Sequence heterogeneity of TT virus and closely related viruses," J Virol, 2000;74(7):2990-3000).

These scientists obtained serum...

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