The investigation of different population's Transfusion-transmitted virus-DNA in Shaanxi province

摘要

Objective To investigate transfusion transmitted virus (TTV) infection among population of different groups in Shaanxi Province. Methods A nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with primers from ORF1 of TTV genome was established to detect TTV-DNA in serum of the patients. Results TTV-DAN was detected in the sera of 3 of 50 cases of general population (6 /100), 2 of 30 cases of vocational blood donors (6.7 /100), 21 of 97 cases with Type B hepatitis (21.6 /100), 9 of 35 cases of type C hepatitis (25.7 /100), and 23 of 40 cases with non-A ～non-G hepatitis (57.5 /100).