title: Hepatitis G virus.
abstract: A number of new hepatitis viruses (G, TT, SEN) were discovered late in the past century. We review the data available in the literature and our own findings suggesting that the new hepatitis G virus (HGV), disclosed in the late 1990s, has been rather well studied. Analysis of many studies dealing with HGV mainly suggests the lymphotropicity of this virus. HGV or GBV-C has been ascertained to influence course and prognosis in the HIV-infected patient. Until now, the frequent presence of GBV-C in coinfections, hematological diseases, and biliary pathology gives no grounds to determine it as an "accidental tourist" that is of no significance. The similarity in properties of GBV-C and hepatitis C virus (HCV) offers the possibility of using HGV, and its induced experimental infection, as a model to study hepatitis C and to develop a hepatitis C vaccine.
authors: Scientific Research Institute of General Reanimatology, Russia Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow 107031, Russia. v_reshetnyak@yahoo.com
authors: Vasiliy Ivanovich
authors: VI
authors: Reshetnyak
authors: Tatiana Igorevna
authors: TI
authors: Karlovich
authors: Ljudmila Urievna
authors: LU
authors: Ilchenko
mesh_terms: D029407:GB virus C / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016679:Genome, Viral; D005838:Genotype; D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history / Q000821:virology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood; D018523:Tropism; D019562:Viral Load; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D006508:Hepatitis Antibodies; D012367:RNA, Viral