Sugiyama K, Goto K, Miyake Y, Mizutani F, Terabe K, Li R, Wada Y, Kajiura S
Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan.
Acta Paediatr Jpn. 1998 Aug;40(4):385-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-200x.1998.tb01955.x.
Recently, a novel viral agent, hepatitis G virus, was identified by independent researchers from the serum of patients with liver disease, and termed GBV-C or HGV. At present, GBV-C and HGV are considered to be separate isolates of the same virus; however, the role of this virus in acute and chronic liver disease remains uncertain. Although vertical transmission is known to be one of the routes of transmission, the prevalence of GBV-C/HGV viremia in pregnant Japanese women is unknown. Thus, we determined this prevalence using the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
最近，一种新型病毒因子——庚型肝炎病毒，由独立研究人员从肝病患者血清中鉴定出来，并命名为GBV-C或HGV。目前，GBV-C和HGV被认为是同一病毒的不同分离株；然而，这种病毒在急慢性肝病中的作用仍不确定。虽然已知垂直传播是传播途径之一，但GBV-C/HGV病毒血症在日本孕妇中的流行情况尚不清楚。因此，我们使用逆转录聚合酶链反应（RT-PCR）测定了这种流行情况。
