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Prevalence of GB virus C/Hepatitis G virus infection among various populations in Surabaya, Indonesia, and identification of novel groups of sequence variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 2000
Handajani R, Soetjipto, Lusida M I, Suryohudoyo P, Adi P, Setiawan P B, Nidom C A, Soemarto R, Katayama Y, Fujii M, Hotta H
Abstract excerpt
A molecular epidemiological study was performed to investigate the prevalence of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) infection among various populations in Surabaya, Indonesia. The prevalence of GBV-C/HGV RNA, determined by reverse transcription-PCR for a portion of the NS3 region of the viral genome, was 2.7% (4 of 150) among randomly collected blood donor sera, which were all negative for both hepatitis B...
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