Article
Hepatitis G virus infection in acute fulminant hepatitis: prevalence of HGV infection and sequence analysis of a specific viral strain.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Sept 1998
Sheng L, Soumillion A, Beckers N, Wu C G, Verslype C, Nevens F, Pirenne J, Aerts R, Kosala H, Fevery J, Yap S H
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis G virus (HGV) is a recently discovered RNA virus, which belongs to the Flaviviridae family. Although HGV infection is usually not associated with elevated serum transaminases, some recent studies have reported that HGV infection is found in a significant number of patients with fulminan...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Blood Donors
- Female
- Flaviviridae
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Hepatitis, Viral, Human
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction