Diagnosis and monitoring of hepatic injury. II. Recommendations for use of laboratory tests in screening, diagnosis, and monitoring

DR Dufour, JA Lott, FS Nolte, DR Gretch… - Clinical …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Purpose: To review information on the use of laboratory tests in screening, diagnosis, and
monitoring of acute and chronic hepatic injury. Data Sources and Study Selection: A …

The GB viruses: a review and proposed classification of GBV-A, GBV-C (HGV), and GBV-D in genus Pegivirus within the family Flaviviridae

JT Stapleton, S Foung, AS Muerhoff… - Journal of general …, 2011 - microbiologyresearch.org
In 1967, it was reported that experimental inoculation of serum from a surgeon (GB) with
acute hepatitis into tamarins resulted in hepatitis. In 1995, two new members of the family …

Natural history of hepatitis C

DL Thomas, LB Seeff - Clinics in liver disease, 2005 - liver.theclinics.com
Soon after non-A, non-B hepatitis was recognized and a decade and a half before hepatitis
C virus (HCV) was discovered, it was apparent that acute hepatitis after blood transfusion …

[PDF][PDF] Persistence of hepatitis C virus in patients successfully treated for chronic hepatitis C

M Radkowski, JF Gallegos‐Orozco, J Jablonska… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
It is unclear whether the current antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)
infection results in complete elimination of the virus, or whether small quantities of virus …

Search for hepatitis C virus negative-strand RNA sequences and analysis of viral sequences in the central nervous system: evidence of replication

M Radkowski, J Wilkinson, M Nowicki, D Adair… - Journal of …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Patients with chronic hepatitis C are more likely to have significant changes in their physical
and mental well-being than patients with liver disease of other etiology, and hepatitis C virus …

Hepatitis C virus in lymphoid cells of patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1: evidence of active replication in monocytes/macrophages and …

T Laskus, M Radkowski, A Piasek… - The Journal of …, 2000 - academic.oup.com
It has been reported that hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be lymphotropic in the setting of
human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) coinfection. The present study was …

Detection and analysis of hepatitis C virus sequences in cerebrospinal fluid

T Laskus, M Radkowski, A Bednarska… - Journal of …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences were detected in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in 8 of 13
HCV-positive patients. In four patients harboring different virus strains in serum and …

Transcripts of a chimeric cDNA clone of hepatitis C virus genotype 1b are infectiousin vivo

M Yanagi, MS Claire, M Shapiro, SU Emerson… - Virology, 1998 - Elsevier
We constructed a chimeric cDNA clone of hepatitis C virus (HCV) that is infectious. The
chimeric genome encodes the polyprotein of a genotype 1b strain (HC-J4) of HCV and …

Tropism of human pegivirus (formerly known as GB virus C/hepatitis G virus) and host immunomodulation: insights into a highly successful viral infection

ET Chivero, JT Stapleton - Journal of General Virology, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Human pegivirus (HPgV; originally called GB virus C/hepatitis G virus) is an RNA virus
within the genus Pegivirus of the family Flaviviridae that commonly causes persistent …

Impact of HBV, HCV and GBV-C/HGV on hepatocellular carcinomas in Europe: results of a European concerted action

C Bréchot, F Jaffredo, D Lagorce, G Gerken… - Journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
Background/Aims: To investigate the impact of hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infections on
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in Europe. Methods: Five hundred and three patients with …