Incidence, Transmission, and Clinical Significance of Hepatitis G Virus Infection in Hemodialysis Patients

Hepatitis G virus exposure in dialysis patients

“…In contrast, few reports are available on HGV prevalence in patients on CAPD treatment who are also at increased risk of GBV-C/HGV infection [21]. HGV-RNA prevalence rates in CAPD patients have been reported to vary from 12.7 to 23.3%, depending on the study [21,22,41].…”

“…In a German study, 3% of patients were positive for both antibodies and HGV-RNA [50]. This overlapping was observed in 0.6% of the samples testedin a Taiwanese study [41]. Numerous authors have reported an association between HCV, HBV and GBV-C/HGV [35, 48,51].…”

“…In Asian countries, such as Bhutan (3.9%), Malaysia (6.3%) and the Philippines (2.7%), anti-E2 positivity was significantly lower [43]. The prevalence of anti-E2 antibodies in HD patients has been established in several studies, with reported antibody rates of 12.9-29% in Germany [19,44], 22% in Austria [45], 14.2% in Belgium [46], 7% in Japan [18] and 15.6% in Taiwan [41]. Little data are available on patients on peritoneal dialysis treatment; however, rates ranging from 0 [20] to10.5% [21, 22] have been reported.…”

Phylogenetic and Mathematical Analyses for Investigating Putative Mother-to-Infant Transmission Chains When Only GB Virus C (Hepatitis G Virus) 5′ Noncoding Region Sequences Are Available

“…The 5Ј NCR was recently studied in transmission chains among hemodialyzed patients (2). To our knowledge, this is the first report to use both mathematical and phylogenetic FIG.…”

Prevalence and Genotypes of Hepatitis G Virus among Hemodialysis Patients in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

“…Some of the most common viral infections are caused by hepatotropic or other hepatitis-associated viruses such as hepatitis B virus (HBV) [8] , hepatitis C virus (HCV) [9] , HGV [10] and transfusion-transmitted virus [11] . In recent years, a high prevalence of HGV infection among end-stage renal disease and chronic HD patients has been well documented, varying between 6 and 44%, in different countries [12][13][14][15] . Analysis of the 5 untranslated region (UTR) has led to the suggestion that variants of HGV can be divided into fi ve genotypes [16] .…”