GBV-C/HGV infection in hepatitis C virus-infected deferred Swedish blood donors
Shev, S ; Björkman, Per LU
; Norkrans, G
; Foberg, U
; Fryden, A
; Lindh, G
; Lindholm, A
; Weiland, O
and Widell, Anders
LU
(1998)
In Journal of Medical Virology
54(2).
p.75-79
- Abstract
- Sera from 62 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected Swedish blood donors were tested by a nested polymerase chain reaction using primers targeting the 5'-noncoding region of the GB virus-C/hepatitis G (GBV-C/HGV) genome and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that detects antibodies to the envelope protein E2 of GBV-C/HGV (anti-E2). Fourteen (22%) and 21 (34%) of the 62 blood donors were found to be GBV-C/HGV RNA and anti-E2 positive, respectively. None of the blood donors was positive for both GBV-C/HGV RNA and anti-E2. Thus, 35 of 62 (56%) HCV-infected donors had been exposed to GBV-C/HGV infection. At sequencing of the 14 GBV-C/HGV isolates, 12 were identified as subtype 2a and 2 as subtype 2b. One of 7 (14%) donors with mild liver disease... (More)
- Sera from 62 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected Swedish blood donors were tested by a nested polymerase chain reaction using primers targeting the 5'-noncoding region of the GB virus-C/hepatitis G (GBV-C/HGV) genome and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay that detects antibodies to the envelope protein E2 of GBV-C/HGV (anti-E2). Fourteen (22%) and 21 (34%) of the 62 blood donors were found to be GBV-C/HGV RNA and anti-E2 positive, respectively. None of the blood donors was positive for both GBV-C/HGV RNA and anti-E2. Thus, 35 of 62 (56%) HCV-infected donors had been exposed to GBV-C/HGV infection. At sequencing of the 14 GBV-C/HGV isolates, 12 were identified as subtype 2a and 2 as subtype 2b. One of 7 (14%) donors with mild liver disease such as steatosis and nonspecific reactive hepatitis had been exposed to GBV-C/HGV vs. 34 of 55 (62%) with chronic hepatitis with or without cirrhosis (P = 0.04). All other differences in histology were small between HCV and dual HCV GBV-C/HGV-infected donors. In conclusion, more than half of HCV-infected Swedish blood donors in this study were positive for either GBV-C/HGV RNA or anti-E2. GBV-C/HGV viremia and seropositivity were mutually exclusive. (Less)
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- Shev, S
; Björkman, Per
LU
; Norkrans, G
; Foberg, U
; Fryden, A
; Lindh, G
; Lindholm, A
; Weiland, O
and Widell, Anders
LU
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- 1998
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- keywords
- HGV, HCV, GBV-C, anti-E2, blood donors, chronic hepatitis
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- Journal of Medical Virology
- volume
- 54
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 75 - 79
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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- pmid:9496362
- scopus:2642659396
- ISSN
- 1096-9071
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- 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199802)54:2<75::AID-JMV1>3.0.CO;2-L
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- English
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