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J Hepatol 1997 Dec;27(6):1110-1112

Acute hepatitis caused by sexual or household transmission of GBV-C.

Tanaka T, Takeuchi T, Inoue K, Tanaka S, Kohara M Liver Unit, The Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Japan.

BACKGROUND/AIMS:

Transfusion transmission is the only known transmission route of the recently identified GBV-C. To date, no evidence of household transmission of GBV-C has been reported. In the present study, a case of acute GBV-C hepatitis was investigated with respect to the mode of transmission.

METHODS:

A 24-year-old woman with acute GBV-C hepatitis and her asymptomatic husband were examined. Two GBV-C RNA samples, isolated at different times from both the patient and her husband were amplified by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction using sequences from the NS3 region. Sequencing of this region was subsequently performed for all four samples.

RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS:

The genomic RNA sequences of GBV-C isolated from each partner at two different time points were found to be 100% homologous. However, these genomic GBV-C RNA sequences differed in the NS3 (helicase) region from the genomic RNA isolated from the GBV-C prototype previously reported by Simons et al. Nonetheless, high homology (83%) was found between the GBV-C prototype and the GBV-C isolated from our patients. In addition, four nucleotides of the GBV-C RNA in the present study are unique and are not present in any other reported sequences of GBV-C. These results strongly suggest that GBV-C is one of the etiological agents involved in severe liver injury and was transmitted between this couple.

PMID: 9453438, UI: 98114183

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