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Non-A-E/HGV Co-infection Studied in Liver Disease, Hemodialysis Patients

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 22nd, 1997

Hepatitis G virus infection is common in hemodialysis patients, researchers reported at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America, held September 13-16, 1997, in San Francisco, California.

T.L. Yashina, Specialty Laboratories, Santa Monica, California, and M.O. Favorov, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, conducted an etiological study of hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection in acute and chronic hepatitis patients.

Data from reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assays revealed HGV RNA in 4 percent of 28 patients with acute non-A-E hepatitis and in 41 percent of 22 patients with...

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