| five new or recently discovered (gbv-a) virus species are indigenous to new world monkeys and may constitute a separate genus of the flaviviridae. | in previous studies, human hepatitis viruses have been experimentally transmitted to new world monkeys of the genus saguinus (tamarins). recently, two flaviviridae-like agents (gbv-a and gbv-b) were identified in tamarins that developed hepatitis following inoculation with serum of the 11th tamarin passage of a potentially new human hepatitis agent. however, it was not shown that these viruses originated from the initial inoculum. we here report the discovery of indigenous species-specific virus ... | 1997 | 9126255 |