Detection and Characterization of Human Pegivirus 2, Vietnam

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 24; no. 11; pp. 2063 - 2067
• Main Authors: Anh, Nguyen To, Hong, Nguyen Thi Thu, Nhu, Le Nguyen Truc, Thanh, Tran Tan, Anscombe, Catherine, Chau, Le Ngoc, Thanh, Tran Thi Thanh, Lau, Chuen-Yen, Limmathurotsakul, Direk, Chau, Nguyen Van Vinh, Rogier van Doorn, H., Deng, Xutao, Rahman, Motiur, Delwart, Eric, Le, Thuy, Thwaites, Guy, Van Tan, Le
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.11.2018; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adult; Coinfection - virology; Community-Acquired Infections - epidemiology; Community-Acquired Infections - virology; Demography; Detection and Characterization of Human Pegivirus 2, Vietnam; Dispatch; Flaviviridae - genetics; Flaviviridae - isolation & purification; Flaviviridae Infections - complications; Flaviviridae Infections - epidemiology; Flaviviridae Infections - virology; HCV; Health aspects; hepatitis and sepsis; Hepatitis C - complications; Hepatitis C - epidemiology; Hepatitis C - virology; Hepatitis C virus; HIV; HIV Infections - complications; HIV Infections - epidemiology; HIV Infections - virology; HIV patients; human hepegivirus 1; human pegivirus 2; Humans; Infection; Male; Medical research; Middle Aged; Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction; Phylogeny; Prevalence; Resveratrol; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA; Vietnam; Vietnam - epidemiology; Vietnam; Thailand; Indonesia; Vietnam; viruses; HIV; hepatitis and sepsis; human hepegivirus 1; HCV; human pegivirus 2
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2411.180668

We report human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2) infection in Vietnam. We detected HPgV-2 in some patients with hepatitis C virus/HIV co-infection but not in patients with HIV or hepatitis A, B, or C virus infection, nor in healthy controls. HPgV-2 strains in Vietnam are phylogenetically related to global strains.