| molecular characterization of pigeon torque teno virus (pttv) in jiangsu province. | the torque teno virus (ttv) is a recently discovered dna virus that has been detected in many different hosts, including humans, livestock and poultry. to date, there is no report of pigeon ttv (pttv) from anywhere in the world. to investigate the distribution of pttv in pigeons from the eastern chinese province of jiangsu and characterize their genomes, we employed pcr to detect pttv in 144 samples collected from 6 pigeon plants in jiangsu province, amplify complete genomes from representative ... | 2017 | 28527409 |