Publications

molecular epidemiology of ttv-like mini virus in norway.	tt virus (ttv), the first human circovirus to be discovered, appears to be present in most people; less is known about the prevalence of the related ttv-like mini virus (tlmv). a sensitive nested pcr, specific for tlmv, detected the virus in 48% of 201 sera (norwegian blood donors) previously found to have a 90% prevalence of ttv. more samples were either positive for both or negative for both viruses than what would have been expected from a random distribution (p = 0.08). sequence analysis rev ...	2002	11855630
detection of enteric viruses in shellfish from the norwegian coast.	common blue mussels (mytilus edulis), horse mussels (modiolus modiolus), and flat oysters (ostrea edulis) obtained from various harvesting and commercial production sites along the norwegian coast were screened for the presence of norovirus by a real-time reverse transcription (rt)-nested pcr assay and for possible indicators of fecal contamination, i.e., for f-specific rna bacteriophages (f-rna phages) by plaque assay and for human adenoviruses and human circoviruses by nested pcr assay. the ai ...	2004	15128518