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Torque teno virus dynamics during the first year of life

Overview of attention for article published in Virology Journal, May 2018
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Title
Torque teno virus dynamics during the first year of life
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Virology Journal, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12985-018-1007-6
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Elena A. Tyschik, Anastasiya S. Rasskazova, Anna V. Degtyareva, Denis V. Rebrikov, Gennady T. Sukhikh

Abstract

Torque teno virus is a small chronically persisting circular negative ssDNA virus reaching near 100% prevalence. It is reported to be a marker for immune function in immunocompromised patients. The possibility of vertical maternal-fetal transmission remains controversial but incidence rate of TTV DNA in children increased with age. TTV dynamics well studied for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as a predictor of post-transplant complications but there is no viral proliferation kinetics data for other patient groups or healthy individuals. The aim of this study was to determine TTV dynamics during the first year of life of healthy infants. Ninety eight clinically healthy breastfeeding infants (1-12 months of age) were analyzed by quantitative PCR for the whole blood TTV load with the test sensitivity of about 1000 viral copies per milliliter of blood (total number of samples including repeatedly tested infants was 109). 67% of all analyzed samples were TTV-positive demonstrating significant positive correlation between age and TTV load (r = 0.81, p < 0.01). This is the first study to suggest that viral load increases during the first year of life reaching a plateau after 6 months with strong proliferation for the first 60 days. Our data well correlates with TTV dynamics in patients following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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Unknown 60 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Other 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 18 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 7%
Engineering 2 3%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 20 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 October 2022.
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