Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

GB virus C genotype 1 is rarely transmitted vertically but acquired during infancy in West Africa.

AIDS (London, England) - 26 Jun 2006

Li Chengyao, Danso Kwabena, Addo-Yobo Emmanuel, Dompreh Albert, Sarkodie Francis, Owusu-Ofori Shirley, Allain Jean-Pierre

Abstract excerpt

Paired Ghanaian plasma and cord blood from pregnant women, alongside plasma samples from children aged 1 day to 70 months, were tested for GBV-C, HIV-1 RNA loads and anti-E2. Frequency of GBV-C vertical transmission in West Africa is significantly lower than in Europe, the USA or East Asia where...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Fetal Blood
Share to Flaviviridae Infections
Share to GB virus C

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Hepatitis, Viral, Human

Share to Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical

Share to Pregnancy Complications, Infectious

Share to Viral Load

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 16791024
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000233583.02586.14

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 2 Sept 2026. Prepared record publication-16791024-2026-09-02.2. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-02.2.

Source receipt: PubMed via Helena Literature Corpus, retrieved 2 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

GB virus C genotype 1 is rarely transmitted vertically but acquired during infancy in West Africa.PMID 16791024Read ↗

Frequent recovery and broad genotype 2 diversity characterize hepatitis C virus infection in Ghana, West Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Herpes Simplex Virus Gene Variants among Asymptomatic Women in Ghana: a pilot studySemantic proximity Read ↗

Maternofetal transmission of hepatitis B virus genotype E in Ghana, west Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Identification and Characterization of Persistent Human Erythrovirus Infection in Blood Donor SamplesSemantic proximity Read ↗

New insights into prevalence, genetic diversity, and proviral load of human T-cell leukemia virus types 1 and 2 in pregnant women in Gabon in equatorial central Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Molecular characterization of occult hepatitis B virus in genotype E-infected subjects.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Predominant human herpesvirus 6 variant A infant infections in an HIV-1 endemic region of Sub-Saharan Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

High human cytomegalovirus loads and diverse linked variable genotypes in both HIV-1 infected and exposed, but uninfected, children in Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic variants of human parvovirus B19 in South Africa: cocirculation of three genotypes and identification of a novel subtype of genotype 1.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Early childhood infection of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus in Zambian households: a molecular analysis.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Human herpesvirus 8 transfusion transmission in Ghana, an endemic region of West Africa.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Prevalence and correlates of GB virus C infection in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected pregnant women in Bangkok, Thailand.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.