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To the Editor: Masuko et al. (June 6 issue)¹ described hepatitis GB virus C (HGBV-C) infection in patients on hemodialysis, reporting a prevalence of 3.1 percent among 519 Japanese patients on hemodialysis as compared with 0.9 percent among 448 healthy blood donors.

Since HGBV-C² and the recently described hepatitis G virus (HGV)³ could represent different genotypes of the same virus, we looked for HGBV-C/HGV in 100 patients (52 men and 48 women; mean age, 58.1±15 years) who had been on hemodialysis for a mean of 117±94 months (range, 6 to 336). Viral RNA was extracted from serum by spin chromatography . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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