New prevalence estimate of Torque Teno virus(TTV) infection in healthy population and patients with chronic viral hepatitis in Jiujiang, China

Dear Editor,Torque Teno virus(TTV)is a nonenveloped human DNA virus that was isolated from the serum of a patient with transfusion-transmitted hepatitis with unknown etiology in 1997(Nishizawa et al.,1997).TTV is the first human virus with a single-stranded circular DNA genome to be identified,and is recently classified as the Alphatorquevirus genus of the Anelloviridae family by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses(ICTV)(King et al.,2011).TTV shows very high genetic