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- Title
Prevalence of TT virus in plasma pools and blood products.
- Authors
Pisani, Giulio; Cristiano, Karen; Wirz, Maria; Bisso, Guillermo; Beneduce, Francesca; Morace, Graziella; Rapicetta, Maria; Gentili, Giuliano
- Abstract
A high prevalence of TT virus (TTV), a novel virus recently identified in the serum of a patient with post-transfusion hepatitis of unknown aetiology, has been reported in blood donors worldwide. We investigated the presence of TTV DNA in several lots of blood products and in the corresponding plasma pools. In the process, we determined, from three sets of primers, the one which was most efficient in detecting the viral nucleic acid. This set amplifies the region closest to the 3′-end of the TTV genome which was proved, by sequence analysis, to be more conserved than the other two regions. Whereas all 10 intravenous immunoglobulin and 21 albumin batches were TTV negative, 4/5 factor VIII concentrates and 4/10 intramuscular immunoglobulin batches were TTV positive. A high prevalence of TTV DNA (70%) was found in the plasma pools that were collected from four different countries. These results confirm the worldwide distribution of this virus and show that TTV is removed with a varying efficiency during the manufacture of blood products.
- Subjects
VIRUSES; BLOOD testing; DNA
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 1999, Vol 106, Issue 2, p431
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01568.x