Journal
JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 77, Issue 16, Pages 9081-9083Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.16.9081-9083.2003
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
TT virus (TTV) produces chronic plasma viremia in around 90% of healthy individuals of all ages and has, therefore, been proposed as a commensal human virus. We recently demonstrated that in children hospitalized for acute respiratory diseases high TTV loads were associated with severe forms of disease. Here, we report that in such children TTV loads showed an inverse correlation with the percentage of circulating total T and helper T cells and a direct correlation with the percentage of B cells. Thus, florid TTV replication might contribute to lymphocyte imbalances and, possibly, immunosuppressive effects, thus resembling related animal viruses.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available