The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
High Prevalence of GB Virus C Infection in a Group of Italian Patients with Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology
Abstract
Prevalence of the recently discovered GB virus C(GBV-C) was evaluated in a cohort of 49 Italian patients with acute or chronic hepatitis of unknown etiology (non-A-E hepatitis) and in a control group of 100 healthy blood donors. The GBV-C genomes could be detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with reverse transcription in 35% of the acute and 39% of the chronic hepatitis patients; only 1 of the control subjects had a positive response. All PCR products hybridized with a specific probe in a colorimetric assay, and the analysis of the sequences of the amplified cDNAs fully confirmed the specificity of the assay. Furthermore, the alignment of the predicted translation products identified two recurrent amino acid substitutions in 6 patients, suggesting the possible existence of at least 2 different GBV-C subtypes. Thus, GBV-C may be an important agent, contributing, at least in Italy, to a significant number of the cases of hepatitis of unknown etiology.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The Natural History of Community-Acquired Hepatitis C in the United States
Alter, M. J., Margolis, H. S., Krawczynski, K., Judson, F. N., Mares, A., Alexander, W. J., Hu, P. Y., Miller, J. K., Gerber, M. A., Sampliner, R. E., et al. (1992) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199212313272702 · Cited by 1,592
Cited by
Acute Non-A–E Hepatitis in the United States and the Role of Hepatitis G Virus Infection
Alter, M. J., Gallagher, M., Morris, T. T., Moyer, L. A., Meeks, E. L., Krawczynski, K., Kim, J. P., & Margolis, H. S. (1997) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199703133361101 · Cited by 409
Chu, C. M., Lin, S., Hsieh, S., Yeh, C., Lin, D., Sheen, I., & Liaw, Y. (1999) · Journal of Medical Virology · doi:10.1002/(sici)1096-9071(199906)58:2<154::aid-jmv9>3.0.co;2-e · Cited by 32
Metadata
- Authors
- Fiordalisi, G., Zanella, I., Mantero, G., Bettinardi, A., Stellini, R., Paraninfo, G., Cadeo, G., & Primi, D.
- Venue
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1996-07-01
- Volume
- 174
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 181-183
- ISSN
- 0022-1899 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-6613
- OpenAlex
- W2155517838
- Cited by
- 162
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 28.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: High Prevalence of GB Virus C Infection in a Group of Italian Patients with Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1093/infdis/174.1.181
- The paper
- Fiordalisi, G., Zanella, I., Mantero, G., Bettinardi, A., Stellini, R., Paraninfo, G., Cadeo, G., & Primi, D. (1996). High Prevalence of GB Virus C Infection in a Group of Italian Patients with Hepatitis of Unknown Etiology. Journal of Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/174.1.181
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
