Article
High prevalence of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus in healthy persons in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Feb 1997
Brown K E, Wong S, Buu M, Binh T V, Be T V, Young N S
Abstract excerpt
GB virus C or hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV), a novel Flavivirus, is detected in 1.5% of US blood donors. The prevalence is higher in multiply transfused patients and in persons with liver disease. Because of the increased incidence of hepatitis in Asia, sera from healthy Vietnamese were tested fo...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Blood Donors
- Female
- Flaviviridae
- Genetic Variation
- Hepatitis, Viral, Human
- Humans
- Military Personnel
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Postpartum Period
- Prevalence
- RNA, Viral
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Vietnam