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Diversity of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus isolates in Singapore: predominance of group 2a and the Asian group 3 variant.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 1999
Wong S B, Chan S H, Ren E C
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The occurrence of GBV-C/HGV infection was studied in 160 individuals from two high-risk groups in Singapore. RT-PCR of the 5'-UTR detected GBV-C/HGV RNA in 3/73 (4.1%) of patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis for chronic renal failure, and in 17/87 (19.5%) of patients coinfected with HCV who tested positive for HCV RNA. Phylogenetic analysis of 5'-UTR sequences from these 20 samples showed that the Asian...
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