GB virus-C – a virus without a disease: We cannot give it chronic fatigue syndrome

GB virus-C – a virus without a disease: We cannot give it chronic fatigue syndrome

BACKGROUND Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an illness in search of an infectious etiology. GB virus-C (GBV-C) virus is a flavivirus with cell tropism and host defense induction qualities compatible with a role in producing the syndrome. The GBV-C genome is detectable in 4% of the population and 12% of the population is seropositive. The present study evaluated the association between infectio...

GB virus type C: a beneficial infection?

GB virus-C (hepatitis G virus) nostalgia.

The newly discovered human flavivirus identified as GB virus-C [1] and hepatitis G virus (HGV) [2], presents intriguing challenges in virology, epidemiology, and blood banking. Its clinical relevance for hepatology, however, appears to have been short-lived. Murthy and colleagues in this issue of Kidney International [3] provide additional evidence that the virus is not associated with clinical...

A high prevalence of serum GB virus C/hepatitis G virus RNA in children with and without liver disease.

The role of GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) in adult and pediatric liver disease is unclear. We detected serum GBV-C/HGV RNA by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in 1 (3%) of 38 cholestatic infants, in 4 (4%) of 95 children without liver disease, and in none of 30 children with autoimmune hepatitis. One cholestatic infant had antibodies, presumably maternal, to GBV-C/HGV....

تعیین برخی خصوصیات بیولوژیکی و مولکولی potato leafroll virus و potato virus a در استان اصفهان

چکیده سیب زمینی یکی از مهم ترین محصولات زراعی در جهان می باشد. ویروس های متعددی این گیاه را تحت تاثیر قرار می دهند و باعث خسارت اقتصادی قابل توجهی می شوند. ویروس پیچیدگی برگ سیب زمینی potato leafroll virus (plrv) عضو تیپ جنس polerovirus و خانواده luteoviridae و ویروس ای سیب زمینی potato virus a (pva) عضو تیپ جنس potyvirus از خانواده potyviridae شایع ترین ویروس های سیب زمینی می باشند که توسط ش...