Torque teno viruses (TTVs) are small, ubiquitous, viruses with a highly diverse, single-
stranded, negative sense DNA genome and wide host range. They are detected at high …

Nearly 200 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the outbreak in 2019,
and this disease has claimed more than 5 million lives worldwide. Currently, researchers are …

Routine large‐scale xenotransplantation from pigs to humans is getting closer to clinical
reality owing to several state‐of‐the‐art technologies, especially the ability to rapidly …

Simple Summary Since 2014, a special class of meat and milk-derived circular DNA agents—
termed bovine meat and milk factors (BMMF)—has been linked to the process of indirect …

In recent years, the continuous development of metagenomics has revealed that in addition
to the digestive tract, some viruses are also common in mammalian blood. To explore and …

• In view of the potential benefit to patients, whose needs cannot at present be effectively met
in other ways, the breeding of pigs to supply organs for xenotransplantation would be …

Purpose. Metagenomics has revealed that, in addition to the digestive tract, certain viruses
are also commonly found in human blood. In order to explore and monitor potential novel …

Materials and Methods: A total of 416 samples were collected during 2014-2018, from both
apparently healthy pigs and also from pigs suspected of having died from classical swine …

Torque teno viruses (TTVs), family Anelloviridae, are small, non-enveloped viruses with a
circular, negative-sense, single-stranded DNA genome. Although TTVs have been reported …

Pigeon torque teno virus (PTTV), a recently discovered circular DNA virus. Here, we
developed a TaqMan-based real-time PCR for rapid and specific detection of PTTV …