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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Wei Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4660652 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biomedical reports 20150826 6
The present study analyzed the presence of human Torque Teno virus (TTV) in hospitalized patients from different departments. In total, 378 serum specimens were collected from the patients (171 with cardiovascular disease, 192 with tumor and 15 with gastroenteritis) and analyzed by ELISA and nest-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect the presence of TTV. The results showed that 64 specimens (17%) were TTV positive from detection with the human ELISA kit, and the patients aged <30 years have ...[more]