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ArticleViruses2022

Genomic Diversity of Torque Teno Virus in Blood Samples from Febrile Paediatric Outpatients in Tanzania: A Descriptive Cohort Study.

Florian Laubscher, Mary-Anne Hartley, Laurent Kaiser, Samuel Cordey

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Article in Viruses, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Florian LaubscherLaboratory of Virology, Department of Diagnostics, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8803-981X
Mary-Anne HartleyIntelligent Global Health Research Group, Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory, Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Laurent KaiserLaboratory of Virology, Department of Diagnostics, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
Samuel CordeyLaboratory of Virology, Department of Diagnostics, Geneva University Hospitals & Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2684-5680
University of Geneva · CHÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Torque teno virus (TTV) is considered to be an ubiquitous member of the commensal human blood virome commonly reported in mixed genotype co-infections. This study investigates the genomic diversity of TTV in blood samples from 816 febrile Tanzanian children. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing was used to screen for TTV in individual blood samples from a cohort of 816 febrile Tanzanian paediatric outpatients. For positive samples, the number of TTV species and genotypes present were evaluated. We investigate the linear relationship between individual TTV diversity and the patient age by linear regression. TTV was detected in 97.2% of sera. ORF1 analysis revealed the presence of 149 genotypes from 38 species, suggesting the presence of 13 new species. These genotypes were mostly present as co-infections with a median of 11 genotypes/subject (range: 1−71). In terms of species, we found a median of nine species/subject (range: 1−29). We further show a significant association between the diversity of co-detected TTV and the age of the subjects (p value < 0.0001). This study shows that significant TTV genomic diversity is acquired by the age of five and that this diversity tends to increase with age, which indicates a repetitive TTV acquisition during the first months/years of life.

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CoinfectionDNA Virus InfectionsTorque teno virusChildCohort StudiesDNA, ViralGenomicsHumansOutpatientsTanzaniaDNA, Viralchildrengenomic diversitytorque teno virus

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PMID35893678
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