title: Infection with GBV-C linked to longer life.
abstract: New research has established a link between HIV patients being infected with a virus that is similar to hepatitis C and having a slower HIV disease progression. Investigators first began to study GBV-C in the mid-1990s as a possible cause of chronic hepatitis, but they quickly lost interest when the virus was shown to have no direct link to the disease.
mesh_terms: D029407:GB virus C; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000821:virology*; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy