Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Prevalence of GB virus type C in urban Americans infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 | Retrovirology BioMed Central Research Open Access Prevalence of GB virus type C in urban Americans infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Stephen M Smith 1 2 Michael J Donio1 Mahender Singh1 James P Fallon1 Lavanya Jitendranath1 Natalia Chkrebtii1 Jihad Slim1 Diana Finkel1 and George Perez1 Address 1Saint Michael s Medical Center Newark New Jersey 07102 USA and 2The New Jersey Medical School Newark New Jersey 07102 USA Email Stephen M Smith - ssmith1824@ Michael J Donio - mikedonio@ Mahender Singh - MahenderS@ James P Fallon - Infdissmmc@ Lavanya Jitendranath - l_jintendra@ Natalia Chkrebtii - nchkrebtii@ Jihad Slim - jsmdsmmc@ Diana Finkel - finkelscott@ George Perez - Georgep@ Corresponding author Published 31 May 2005 Received 03 May 2005 Retrovirology 2005 2 38 doi 1742-4690-2-38 Accepted 3 I May 2005 This article is available from http content 2 1 38 2005 Smith et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract GBV-C virus infection has been linked to improved clinical outcome in HIV-1 co-infected individuals. The epidemiology of GBV-C has thus far been limited to the gay male HIV population. Here we describe the prevalence of antibodies against GBV-C envelope glycoprotein E2 and GBV-C viremia in an HIV inner city population. This study group is predominantly African-American 41 of the participants are women. The major risk factor for HIV infection is intravenous drug use. Overall 56 of the study population had evidence of current or past infection with GBV-C. GBV-C exposure was not associated with hepatitis C virus infection. The group of participants who had GBV-C .
