GB virus C/Hepatitis G virus infection in Saudi Arabian blood donors and patients with cryptogenic hepatitis

Archives of Virology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-84

  Al Ahdal, M N ^a   Rezeig, M A ^a   Kessie, G ^a   Chaudhry, F ^a   Ai Shammary, F J ^b  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGENIC HEPATITIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS G; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0033965945     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007050050006     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. 1. Aikawa T, Sugai Y, Okamoto H (1996) Hepatitis G infection in drug abusers with chronic hepatitis C. N Engl J Med 334: 195-196
2. 2. Al-Ahdal M N, Kessie G (1997) Serological diagnosis of hepatitis C virus in patients with liver disease in Saudi Arabia: evaluation of antibody determination by recombinant immunoblot assays in relation to RNA detection by polymerase chain reaction. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 27: 69-73
3. 3. Alter H J (1996) The cloning and clinical implications of HGV and HGBV-C. N Engl J Med 334: 1 536-1 537.
4. 4. Chomczynksi P, Sacchi N (1987) Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction. Anal Biochem 162: 156-159
5. 5. Fiordalisi G, Zanella I, Mantero G, Dettinardi A, Stellini R, Paraninfo G, Cadeo G, Primi D (1996) High prevalence of GB virus C infection in a group of Italian patients with hepatitis of unknown etiology. J Infect Dis 174: 181-183
6. 6. Karayiannis P, Pickering J, Zampino R, Thomas HC (1998) Natural history and molecular biology of hepatitis G virus/GB virus C. Clin Diagn Virol 10: 103-111
7. 7. Kondo Y, Mizokami M, Nakano T, Kato T, Ohba K, Orito E, Ueda R, Mukaide M, Hikiji K, Oyunsuren T, Cooksley WG (1997) Genotype of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus by molecular evolutionary analysis. Virus Res 52: 221-230
8. 8. Kuroki T, Nishiguchi S, Tanaka M, Enomoto M, Kobayashi K (1996) Does GBV-C cause fulminant hepatitis in Japan? Lancet 347: 908
9. 9. Leary TP, Muerhoff AS, Simons JN, Pilot-Matias TJ, Erker JC, Chalmers ML, Schlauder GG, Dawson GJ, Desai SM, Mushahwar IK (1996) Sequence and genomic organization of GBV-C: a novel member of the Flaviviridae associated with human non A-E hepatitis. J Med Virol 48: 60-67
10. 10. Linnen J, Wages J, Jr, Zhang-Keck Z-Y, Fry KE, Kraeczynski KZ, Alter H, Koonin E, Gallagher M, Alter M, Hadziyannis S, Karayiannis P, Fung K, Nakatsuji Y, Shih JW-K, Young L, Piatak M, Jr, Hoover C, Fernandez J, Chen S, Zou J-C, Morris T, Hyams KC, Ismay S, Lifson JD, Hess G, Foung SKH, Thomas H, Bradley D, Margolis H, Kim JP (1996) Molecular cloning and disease association of hepatitis G virus: a transfusion-transmissible agent. Science 271: 505-508
11. 11. Masuko K, Mitsiu T, Iwano K, Yamazaki C, Okuda K, Meguro T, Murayama N, Inoue T, Tsuda F, Okamoto H, Miyakawa Y, Mayumi M (1996) Infection with hepatitis GB virus C in patients on maintenance hemodialysis. N Engl J Med 334: 1 485-1 490
12. 12. Muerhoff AS, Leary TP, Simons JN, Pilot-Matias TJ, Dawson GJ, Erker JC, Chalmers ML, Schlauder GG, Desai SM, Mushahwar IK (1995) Genomic organizaiton of GB Viruses A and B: two new members of the Flaviviridae associated with GB agent hepatitis. J Virol 69: 5 621-5 630
13. 13. Mukaide M, Mizokami M, Orito E, Ohba K-I, Nakano T, Ueda R, Kazumasa H, Iino S, Shapiro S, Lahat N, Park Y-M, Kim B-S, Oyunsuren T, Rezeig M, Al-Ahdal MN, Lau JYN (1997) Three different GB virus C/hepatitis G virus genotypes. Phylogenetic analysis and a genotyping assay based on restriction fragment length polymorphism. FEBS Lett 407: 51-58
14. 14. Ohba K, Mizokami M, Lau JYN, Orito E, Ikeo K, Gojobori T (1996) Evolutionary relationship of hepatitis C, pesti-, flavi-, plantaviruses, and newly discovered GB hepatitis agents. FEBS Lett 378: 232-234
15. 15. Okamoto H, Nakao H, Inoue T, Fukuda M, Kishimoto J, Iizuka H, Tsuda F, Miyakawa Y, Maumi M (1997) The entire nucleotide sequences of two GB virus C/hepatitis G virus isolates of distinct genotypes from Japan. J Gen Virol 78: 737-745
16. 16. Orito E, Mizokami M, Nakano T, Ron-Ron W, Cao K, Ohba K-I, Ueda R, Mukaide M, Hikiji K, Matsumoto Y, Iino S (1996) GB virus C/hepatitis G virus infection among Japanese patients with chronic liver diseases and blood donors. Virus Res 46: 89-93
17. 17. Pickering JM, Thomas C, Karayiannis P (1997) Genetic diversity between hepatitis G virus isolates: analysis of nucleotide variation in the NS-3 and putative 'core' peptide genes. J Gen Virol 78: 53-60
18. 18. Roth WK, Waschk D, Marx S, Tschauder S, Zeuzem S, Bialleck H, Weber H, Seifried E (1997) Prevalence of hepatitis G virus and its strain variant, the GB agent, in blood donations and their transmission to recipients. Transfusion 37: 651-656
19. 19. Saitou N, Nei M (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol Biol Evol 4: 406-425
20. 20. Sallie R, Shaw J, Mutimer D (1996) GBV-C virus and fulminant hepatic failure. Lancet 347: 1552
21. 21. Sheng L, Soumillion A, Beckers N, Wu CG, Verslype C, Nevens F, Pirenne J, Aerts R, Kosala H, Fevery J, Yap SH (1998) Hepatitis G virus infection in acute fulminant hepatitis: prevalence of HGV infection and sequence analysis of a specific viral strain. J Viral Hepatitis 5: 301-306
22. 22. Simons JN, Leary TP, Dawson GJ, Pilot-Matias TJ, Muerhoff AS, Schlauder GG, Desai SM, Mushahwar IK (1995) Isolation of novel virus-like sequences associated with human hepatitis. Nature Med 1: 564-569
23. 23. Smith DB, Cuceanu N, Davidson F, Jarvis LM, Mokili JLK, Hamid S, Ludlam CA, Simmonds B (1997) Discrimination of hepatitis G virus/GBV-C geographical variants by analysis of the 5′ non-coding region. J Gen Virol 78: 1 533-1 542
24. 24. Tacke M, Kiyosawa K, Stark K, Schlueter V, Ofenloch-Haehnle B, Hess G, Engel AM (1997) Detection of antibodies to a putative hepatitis G virus envelope protein. Lancet 349: 318-320
25. 25. Tsuda F, Hadiwandowo S, Sawada N, Fukuda M, Tanaka T, Okamoto H, Miyakawa Y, Mayumi M (1996) Infection with GB Virus C (GBV-C) in patients with chronic liver disease or on maintenance hemodialysis in Indonesia. J Med Virol 49: 248-252
26. 26. Yoshiba M, Okamoto H, Mishiro S (1995) Detection of the HGV hepatitis virus genome in serum from patients with fulminant hepatitis of unknown etiology. Lancet 346: 1 131-1 132
27. 27. Zuckerman AJ (1996) alphabet of hepatitis viruses. Lancet 347: 558-559