Abstract:
Objective To investigate the situation of TTV infecting in various crowds in Shanghai and to explore the high-risk crowd and spreading way of TTV.
Methods Applying semi-nested PCR to test TTV DNA and picking out some PCR outcome (249bp)of positive sample to deter mine the nucleotidesequence.
Results Eight groups counting to 473 are examined,sixty patients are non A~G hepatitis,102 patients are A~G hepatitis,55 patients are hemodialysis,38 children are blood disease,68 healthy men and 50 patients are venereal disease,vein freak-out and cancer of the liver.The gross masculine rate of TTV DNA is 28.33% (134/473).The masculine rate fluctuates between 17.64% and 50%.The mascline rate of vein freak-out is 50%(25/50)and venereal disease is 36%(18/50),both of which have the no table difference(χ
2=14.01,P<0.001,χ
2=5.12,P>0.05)from the healthy men(17.64%).The difference of masculine rate in other group has no statistics meaning.Comparing the group of intestines infecting(A,E hepatitis)and the group of blood infecting(vein freak-out,blood disease,hemodialysis and B,C hepatitis),the corresponding masculine rate of which is 25.49% and 32.17% and has no notable difference(χ
2=0.46,P>0.05).The sequence result of spreading outcome in 20 masculine samples shows that there are 15 samples which the isogenous of nucleo tide sequence and Japanese strain(N22)is higher than 85% and 5 samples lower than 85%.
Conclusion The research proves that the infection of TTV is rather comprehensive in Shanghai,in which the vein freak-out and venereal disease are high-danger crowd and there maybe exists spreading way of sex contact and non-hematogenous dissemination besides blood infection.TTV is in carrying state in crowd and may be a poor nosogenetic virus.The aberrance of TTV ototoxicosis strain is in existence in Shanghai.