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Disease Associations (Hepatitis)
"Prevalence of Hepatitis G Virus in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis and in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma."
May 26th, 1997
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 97th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held May 4-8, 1997, in Miami Beach, Florida, "A novel RNA virus has been associated with hepatitis, and it has been provisionally designated as hepatitis G virus (HGV). Apparently the HGV can be associated with chronic hepatitis with and without co-infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV), but is not clear whether HGV infection is associated or not with an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma. We investigated the prevalence of hepatitis G virus (HGV) in 38 patients with chronic hepatitis (CH) and in 38 patients with hepatocellular...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-05-26)
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