Disease Associations
"Prevalence of Antibodies to the E2 Protein of GB Virus C/Hepatitis G Virus in HIV Infected Patients."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 14th, 1998
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 38th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, held March 18-21, 1998, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Background: GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (HGV) is a recently discovered infectious agent, transmitted parenterally and sexually, and from an HGV-infected mother to her child. GBV-C/HGV genome is detected by PCR, and antibodies occur after the loss of RNA in the serum. Numerous reports have documented a high prevalence of GBVC/HGV in different population groups, but few of them in immunocompromised patients. Methods: We detected IgG antibodies to the E2 protein of GBV-C/HGV by the enzyme...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1998-12-14)
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