"Diagnosis of Hepatitis G Virus Infections."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 4th International Meeting on Hepatitis C Virus and Related Viruses, Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis, held March 6-10, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, "Objectives and Methods: The recent identification of a new flavivirus, designated HGV or GBV-C in the serum of patients with non-A-E hepatitis has attracted much attention. However, the disease association of HGV is still unclear. In part this is due to the fact that the detection of viral infection was restricted to RT-PCR-based techniques so far. Therefore, we established an immunoassay for the detection of antibodies to the viral envelope protein E2 (anti-E2) in human sera. ...

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