| prevalence of gb virus c/hepatitis g virus infection among various populations in surabaya, indonesia, and identification of novel groups of sequence variants. | a molecular epidemiological study was performed to investigate the prevalence of gb virus c/hepatitis g virus (gbv-c/hgv) infection among various populations in surabaya, indonesia. the prevalence of gbv-c/hgv rna, determined by reverse transcription-pcr for a portion of the ns3 region of the viral genome, was 2.7% (4 of 150) among randomly collected blood donor sera, which were all negative for both hepatitis b virus surface antigen and antibodies against hepatitis c virus (hcv). on the other h ... | 2000 | 10655364 |