High Carriage Rate of TT Virus in the Cervices of Pregnant Women | Zendy

Paul K.S. Chan | Zendy; Wing Hung Tam | Zendy; Winnie Yeo | Zendy; Jo L.K. Cheung | Zendy; Sheng Zhong | Zendy; A. F. B. Cheng | Zendy

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High Carriage Rate of TT Virus in the Cervices of Pregnant Women

Author(s) -

Paul K.S. Chan,

Wing Hung Tam,

Winnie Yeo,

Jo L.K. Cheung,

Sheng Zhong,

A. F. B. Cheng

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/319983

Subject(s) - carriage , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , virology , polymerase chain reaction , virus , sexual transmission , viral disease , obstetrics , biology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , genetics , pathology , electrical engineering , microbicide , engineering , gene

Prevalence studies of the recently identified TT virus (TTV) have suggested that parenteral transmission is a common route of infection, but other routes also appear likely. In this study, a high rate of cervical carriage (66%) of TTV DNA was found by polymerase chain reaction, which suggests that perinatal and sexual transmission is possible.

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