Article: Relation Between GB Virus C/Hepatitis G Virus and Fulminant Hepatic Failure May Be Secondary to Treatment With Contaminated Blood and/or Blood Products.

Article: GBV-C Common in Kids Treated for ALL.
Hepatitis Weekly;  March 15, 1999 ;     638 words ... ... lymphoblastic leukemia, but patients often lost GBV-C infection over time. The purpose of ... determine the prevalence of GB virus type C (GBV-C) infection in children treated for ... C virus (HCV), HCV RNA, antibody to GBV-C E2 (anti-E2), and GBV-C RNA ...

Article: GBV-C No Apparent Association between Virus and Liver ...
Hepatitis Weekly;  October 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... novel viruses, designated GB virus type C (GBV-C) or hepatitis G virus (HGV) are not well understood. GBV-C/HGV does not appear to be associated ... colleagues compared the rates of exposure to GBV-C in population groups by examining the ...

Article: Diagnostics (GBV-C) Hwang, S.J.; Lu, R.H.; Chan, C.Y.; ...
Blood Weekly;  January 18, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Virology, "GB virus-C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) is an RNA virus that can be ... diagnosis based on the detection of serum GBV-C/HGV RNA by reverse transcription ... antibodies to the E2 protein (anti-E2) of GBV-C/HGV in patients with acute post ...

Article: Infection with GBV-C linked to longer life.(GB virus ...
AIDS Alert;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Infection with GBV-C linked to longer life Odd benign virus ... progression. Investigators first began to look at GBV-C in the mid-1990s as a possible cause ... investigators searched for differences between GBV-C and hepatitis C in an effort to understand ...

Article: Genotyping (Hepatitis) GBV-C/HGV Not Important in Type 1 ...
Hepatitis Weekly;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...GBV-C hepatitis virus infection is not common ... Hepatitis G virus (HGV) and GB virus-C (GBV-C) were discovered independently by different ... to have a 95 percent sequence homology with GBV-C and these two agents are now considered ...

Article: Blood Banking No Difference in GBV-C/HGV Viremia in Donors ...
Blood Weekly;  June 8, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Infection with GB virus C (GBV-C) and its strain variant hepatitis G ... significant difference in the prevalence of GBV-C/HGV infection between donors with ... Transfusion, 1998;38:378-384). GBV-C/HGV are of unknown pathogenic significance ...

Article: Renal Transplantation (GBV-C) Murthy, B.V.R.; Muerhoff, ...
Hepatitis Weekly;  July 13, 1998 ;     700+ words ..."Predictors of GBV-C Infection Among Patients Referred for ... association between the presence of GB virus C (GBV-C) infection, known risk factors for ... overall). Additional sera were available for GBV-C RNA testing in 465 of 573 (81%) patients ...