The GB virus C/hepatitis G virus replicates in hepatocytes without causing liver disease in healthy blood donors

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1756-1760

  Jahn, Hans Ulrich ^a   Krüll, Matthias ^a   Wuppermann, Frederik N ^b   Klucken, Andrea C ^a   Rosseau, Simone ^a   Seybold, Joachim ^a   Hegemann, Johannes H ^c   Jantos, Christian A ^b   Suttorp, Norbert ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS G VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BLOOD DONORS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRIDAE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033680580     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317610     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Isolation of novel virus-like sequences associated with human hepatitis
2. Molecular cloning and disease association of hepatitis G virus: A transfusion-transmissible agent
3. Clinical implications of GB virus C
4. Prevalence, incidence, and clinical characteristics of hepatitis G virus/GB virus C infection in Scottish blood donors
5. The incidence of transfusion-associated hepatitis G virus infection and its relation to liver disease
6. Hepatitis G infection in drug abusers with chronic hepatitis C
7. Detection of hepatitis G virus RNA in persons with and without risk factors for blood-borne viral infections in Sweden and Honduras
8. Genetic evidence for mother-to-infant transmission of hepatitis G virus
9. Perinatal transmission of hepatitis G virus (GB virus type C) and hepatitis C virus infection: A comparison
10. Heterosexual transmission of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus infection
11. Association between fulminant hepatic failure and a strain of GBV virus C
12. Hepatotropism of GB virus C (GBV-C): GBV-C replication in human hepatocytes and cells of human hepatoma cell lines
13. Detection of GB virus-C/hepatitis G virus genome in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and liver tissue
14. Is hepatitis G/GB virus-C virus hepatotropic? Detection of hepatitis G/GB virus-C viral RNA in liver and serum
15. Chondroclasts and osteoclasts in bones of young rats: Comparison of ultrastructural and functional features