Maria Linda Vatteroni

TL;DR: TT virus is a covalently closed single-stranded DNA genome with a number of characteristics typical of animal circoviruses, especially the chicken anemia virus, which has led investigators to group isolates into numerous genotypes and subtypes and has limited the sensitivity of many PCR assays used for virus detection.

TL;DR: Examination of nasal swab specimens from 90 infants with acute respiratory tract infections in Pisa, Italy, over a period of three respiratory virus seasons indicates that hMPV is seen as commonly as other respiratory viruses, may be associated with severe respiratory disease in infants, can establish mixed infections with other respiratory virus, and has a seasonal occurrence.

TL;DR: Although there is no compelling evidence that TTV was the direct cause of ARD in some of the children studied, the average loads of TTV were considerably higher in patients with bronchopneumonia than in those with milder ARD, raising interesting questions about the pathophysiological significance of TVs at this site.

TL;DR: Results indicate that, whereas freshly harvested resting PBMCs seem to produce little, if any TTV, stimulatedPBMCs actively replicate the virus.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the composition of quasispecies found in the liver, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and plasma of ten patients by single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis of the E2/NS1 region and sequencing of the variants detected.