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High prevalence of TT virus DNA in human saliva and semen
1Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|June 2, 2000
Abstract:
Using the PCR assay, we found a high prevalence of TT virus (TTV) DNA in saliva and semen from patients who were seropositive for TTV. This finding suggests that the presence of TTV in body fluids other than serum may affect the routes of viral transmission.