Virology (HGV)
"GBV-C/HGV: A New Human Hepatitis-Related Virus."
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 5th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Research in Virology, "Two novel potentially hepatotropic flavi-like viruses were recently identified in patients with acute or chronic hepatitis and were provisionally called GBV-C and hepatitis G virus (HGV). The sequence identity analysis of these two viruses clearly indicated that GBV-C and HGV are two isolates of the same virus. In addition, the phylogenic analysis of the aligned viral polyprotein sequences showed that the GBV-C and HGV isolates are closely related to two Flaviviruses (GBV-A and GBV-B) that cause hepatitis in tamarins, and are distantly related to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Taken together, these results...
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