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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1217-1220, Vol. 37, No. 4
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Identification of a Novel Genotype of Hepatitis G Virus in Southeast Asia

Hideo Naito,1 Khin Maung Win,2 and Kenji Abe1,*

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.

* 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.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 1999, p. 1217-1220, Vol. 37, No. 4
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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