Association between fulminant hepatic failure and a strain of GBV virus C

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S HeringlakeM P Manns

Abstract

The GB virus C (GBV-C) and the hepatitis G virus (HGV) have been detected in patients with acute indeterminant hepatitis and post-transfusion hepatitis. However, the role of the new hepatitis viruses in the aetiology of fulminant hepatitis is little understood. We investigated the presence of GBV-C/HGV in patients with fulminant hepatic failure. Serum samples from 22 German patients with fulminant hepatic failure and 106 symptom-free blood donors (controls) were studied for presence of GBV-C RNA by seminested reverse transcriptase PCR. Primer sequences were derived from the published gene sequences of the conserved NS3 region of the GBV-C prototype and the published isolates. Nucleotide and amino acid sequences of GBV-C-positive isolates, the control RNA, and the published HGV and GBV-C prototype sequences were compared by multiple sequence alignment. We also compared the GBV-C sequences of virus-positive patients who had fulminant hepatic failure with those of 19 patients with chronic hepatitis from our centre. In addition, we searched databases and published papers for further GBV-C helicase sequences in patients with non-fulminant hepatitis. GBV-C RNA was detected in 11 (50%) of the 22 patients with fulminant hepatic failure...Continue Reading

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