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Hepatitis G virus infection in hemodialysis patients.
- Source :
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Kidney international [Kidney Int] 1997 Jan; Vol. 51 (1), pp. 348-52. - Publication Year :
- 1997
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Abstract
- The increased risk of hemodialysis patients for infections sustained by hepatitis viruses is likely to extend to a newly discovered parenterally transmitted virus, HGBV-C/HGV, able to cause acute and chronic hepatitis. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and clinical relevance of this infection in Italian hemodialysis patients. Nineteen of 100 patients (19%) on maintenance hemodialysis were viremic for HGBV-C/HGV, and all of them were infected with a HGV-like genotype. Eight of these patients were coinfected by hepatitis B or hepatitis C viruses. A clinical picture of chronic hepatitis was not appreciable in patients with isolated HGV infection and the presence of HGV did not appear to modify the clinical course of hepatitis B and hepatitis C infections.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Aged
Blood Transfusion
DNA, Viral analysis
Female
Hepacivirus
Hepatitis B virus
Humans
Italy epidemiology
Kidney Failure, Chronic therapy
Male
Middle Aged
Molecular Sequence Data
Prevalence
Risk Factors
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
Flaviviridae
Hepatitis, Viral, Human epidemiology
Kidney Failure, Chronic epidemiology
Kidney Failure, Chronic virology
Renal Dialysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0085-2538
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Kidney international
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8995753
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.1997.43