The prevalence of hepatitis C virus types in patients of the same geographic area, according to the source of infection and liver disease

Clinical and Diagnostic Virology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-194

  Sacco, Rodolfo ^b   Randone, Anna ^a   Flichman, Diego ^a   Oliveri, Filippo ^a   Colombatto, Piero ^a   Scaraggi, Francesco Antonio ^b   Bonino, Ferruccio ^a   Schiraldi, Oronzo ^b   Brunetto, Maurizia Rossana ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Haemophilia; HCV genotypes; Hepatitis; Hepatitis C virus; Hepatocellular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEMOPHILIA; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0031282108     PISSN: 09280197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-0197(97)00019-6     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Alter H. The Hepatitis C virus and its relationship to the clinical spectrum of NANB hepatitis. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1990;5(suppl 1):78-94.
2. Buck J, Purcell RH, Miller RH. At least 12 genotypes of Hepatitis C virus predicted by sequence analysis of the putative E1 gene isolates collected Worldwide. Proc Natl Acad Science USA; 90; 1993:8234-8238, Virol 74 1993:2391-2399.
3. Buck J, Purcell RH, Miller RH. At least 12 genotypes of Hepatitis C virus predicted by sequence analysis of the putative E1 gene isolates collected Worldwide. Proc Natl Acad Science USA; 90; 1993:8234-8238, Virol 74 1993:2391-2399.
4. Choo Q-L, Richman KH, Han JH, Berger K, Lee C, Dong C, Galiegos C. Genetic organization and diversity of hepatitis C virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1991;88:2451-5.
5. De Mitri MS, Poussin K, Baccarini P, Pontisso P, et al. HCV-associated liver cancer without cirrhosis. Lancet 1995;345:413-5.
6. Desmet VJ, Gerber M, Hoofnagle JH, Manns M, Schener PJ. Classification of chronic hepatitis: diagnosis, grading and staging. Hepatology 1994;19:1513-20.
7. Dusheiko G, Schmilovitz-Weiss H, Brown D, et al. Hepatitis C virus genotypes: an investigation of type-specific differences in geographic origin and disease. Hepatology, 1994;19:12-18.
8. Enomoto N, Takada A, Nakeo T, Date T. There are two major types of hepatitis C virus in Japan. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1990;170:1021-5.
9. Gordon SC, Elloway RS, Long JC, Dmuchowski CF. The pathology of hepatitis C as a function of mode of trasmission: blood transfusion vs intravenous drug use. Hepatology 1993;18:1338-43.
10. Pawlotsky JM, Tsakiris L, Roudot-Thoraval F, Pellet L, Stuyver L, Duval J, Dhumeaux D. Relationship between hepatitis C virus and sources of infection in patients with chronic hepatitis C. J Infect Diseases 1995;171:160-710.
11. Pontisso P, Ruvoletto MG, Nicoletti M, et al. Distribution of three major hepatitis C virus in Italy. A multicentre study of 495 patients with chronic hepatitis C. J Viral Hepatitis 1995;2:33-8.
12. Pozzato G, Moretti M, Franzin F, et al. The presence of 'Japanese type' of NS4 region is associated to more severe liver disease. J Hepatol 1992;16:S3.
13. Schiraldi O. Epidemiological aspects of Hepatitis C virus infection in southern Italy. Dianzani e Gentilini editors. Liver Pathophysiology, 1994:99-105.
14. Simmonds P, Zhang QL, Watson HG, Rebus S, Ferguson ED, et al. Hepatitis C quantification and sequencing in blood products, haemophiliacs, and drug users. Lancet 1990;336:1469-72.
15. Simmonds P, Holmes EC, Cha TA, Chan S-W, Mc Omish F, Irvine B, Beall E, et al. Classification of hepatitis C virus into six major genotypes and a series of subtypes by phylogenetic analysis of the NS-5 region. J Gen Virol 1993a;74:2391-9.
16. Simmonds P, Rose KA, Graham S, Chan S-W, Mc Omish F, Dow BC, Follett EAC, Yap PL, Marsden H. Mapping of Serotype-Specific, Immunodominant Epitopes in the NS4 Region of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): Use of Type-Specific Peptides To Serologically Differentiate Infections with HCV Types 1, 2, and 3. J Clin Microbiol, June, 1993:1493-1503.
17. Simmonds P, Alberti A, Alter HJ, Bonino F, et al. A proposed system for the nomenclature of hepatitis C viral genotypes. Hepatology 1994;19:1321-4.
18. Simmonds P. Variability of hepatitis C virus. Hepatology 1995;21:570-83.
19. Stuyver L, Rossau R, Wyseur A, Duhamel M, Vanderborght B, Van Heuverswyn H, Maertens G. Typing of hepatitis C virus isolates and characterization of new subtypes using a line probe assay. J Gen Virol 1993;74:1093-102.
20. Takada N, Takase S, Enomoto N, Takada A, Date T. Clinical back grounds of the patients having different types of hepatitis C virus genomes. J Hepatol 1992;14:35-40.
21. Takada N, Takase S, Takada A, Date T. Differences in the hepatitis C virus genotypes in different countries. J Hepatol 1993;17:277-83.
22. Tismineszky SG, Gerotto M, Pontisso P, et al. Genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Italian patients with chronic hepatitis C. Int Hepatol Commun 1994;2:105-12.