Published in Blood Weekly, April 8th, 1996
Three GBV viruses - GBV-A, GBV-B, and GBV-C - have recently been identified. In January 1996 hepatitis X, a long-awaited agent referred to informally for several months at scientific meetings, was designated hepatitis G or HGV (Linnen et al., Science, 1996;271:505-509).
"Isolation of the GB viruses A and B as novel flavivirus-like agents in tamarins infected originally with acute icteric hepatitis, facilitated the identification...
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