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| | Small Anellovirus in Hepatitis C Patients and Healthy Controls | CDC EID |
 | | Indeed, >80% of humans harbor variably high viral loads of TTV, TTMV, or both, in plasma, regardless of geographic provenance, age, sex, and health conditions (1). |
 | | Currently, TTV and TTMV are classified as distinct species in the floating (although closely linked to the family Circoviridae) genus Anellovirus, but their extreme genetic heterogeneity and some distinctive features in genomic organization have led some to suggest that they should be classified as an independent family (2,3). |
 | | Most recently, after examining serum specimens from patients with symptoms of an acute viral infection by using DNase sequence-independent single-primer amplification, Jones et al. |
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