background : gb virus c (gbv-c) is a flavivirus that was characterized in 1995. the prevalence of gbv-c rna in hiv-infected subjects has not been previously studied in iran and was therefore determined. methods: we have investigated serum samples of 80 patients from imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran, whose hiv infection was confirmed in our laboratory by western-blotting. we used nested-pc...
