Article
Human pegivirus (HPgV, GBV-C) RNA prevalence, genome characterization and association with HIV coinfection among volunteer blood donors from a public hemotherapy service in Northern Brazil.
2020-04-17
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>BackgroundHuman pegivirus (HPgV) - formerly known as GBV-C - is a member of the <italic>Flaviviridae</italic> family and belongs to the species <italic>Pegivirus</italic> C. It is a non-pathogenic virus and is transmitted among humans mainly through the exposure to contaminated blood and is often associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. This study aimed to determine...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 68f447ac-26d5-583b-937b-f63bd435f38d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-21410/v1
