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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1217-1220, Vol. 37, No. 4
Department of Pathology, National Institute
of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan,1 and
Department of Hepatology, Yangon General Hospital, Yangon,
Myanmar2
Received 26 October 1998/Returned for modification 14 December
1998/Accepted 15 January 1999
Hepatitis G virus (HGV) isolates obtained from 20 Myanmarese and 10 Vietnamese subjects were analyzed. A cluster of isolates not belonging
to any known genotype of HGV was found in five Myanmarese subjects and
three Vietnamese subjects by phylogenetic analysis, and we classified
this new genotype as type 4. These results revealed that the HGV genome
can be classified into at least four major genotypes.
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Identification of a Novel Genotype of Hepatitis
G Virus in Southeast Asia
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. Phone: (81) 3-5285-1111, ext. 2624. Fax: (81) 3-5285-1189 or (81) 3-5285-1150. E-mail:
kenjiabe{at}nih.go.jp.
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