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Hepatitis G virus (GBV-C) infection among Brazilian patients with chronic liver disease and blood donors.
Clinical and diagnostic virology - 1 Jan 1998
Lampe E, de Oliveira J M, Pereira J L, Saback F L, Yoshida C F, Niel C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The recently discovered hepatitis G virus (HGV) belongs, as hepatitis C virus (HCV), to the Flaviviridae family. HGV has been isolated from the serum of patients with non A-E hepatitis. However, the association of HGV with hepatitis is uncertain. OBJECTIVE: To determine the HGV prevalence in blood donors and in patients with liver disease and to evaluate a possible correlation between HGV infection...
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