Transmission

Nonparenteral Route Critical for GBV-C Spread

Published in Virus Weekly, February 9th, 1998

Nonparenteral or occult parenteral routes of hepatitis GBV-C infection may be critical for the immunological process, according to a report from the University of California and Abbott Laboratories.

Parenteral exposure has been suggested to be the major mode of GBV-C transmission, an observation which is supported by the frequent coexistence of GBV-C with other parenterally acquired viruses such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV).

In Egypt, the first reported prevalence of hepatitis C infection among patients with non-A, non-B (NANB) chronic liver disease was 66.8 percent and early reports related 35 to 70 percent of acute...

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