Primate conservation: Lessons learned in the last 20 years can guide future efforts

CA Chapman, CA Peres - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty years ago, we published an assessment of the threats facing primates and with the
passing of two decades, we re‐evaluate identified threats, consider emerging pressures …

Review of human pegivirus: Prevalence, transmission, pathogenesis, and clinical implication

Y Yu, Z Wan, JH Wang, X Yang, C Zhang - Virulence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Human pegivirus (HPgV-1), previously known as GB virus C (GBV-C) or
hepatitis G virus (HGV), is a single-stranded positive RNA virus belonging to the genus …

Detection and sequencing of Zika virus from amniotic fluid of fetuses with microcephaly in Brazil: a case study

G Calvet, RS Aguiar, ASO Melo… - The Lancet infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background The incidence of microcephaly in Brazil in 2015 was 20 times higher than in
previous years. Congenital microcephaly is associated with genetic factors and several …

Proposed update to the taxonomy of the genera Hepacivirus and Pegivirus within the Flaviviridae family

DB Smith, P Becher, J Bukh… - Journal of General …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Proposals are described for the assignment of recently reported viruses, infecting rodents,
bats and other mammalian species, to new species within the Hepacivirus and Pegivirus …

A multicomponent animal virus isolated from mosquitoes

JT Ladner, MR Wiley, B Beitzel, AJ Auguste… - Cell host & …, 2016 - cell.com
RNA viruses exhibit a variety of genome organization strategies, including multicomponent
genomes in which each segment is packaged separately. Although multicomponent …

Discovery of a novel human pegivirus in blood associated with hepatitis C virus co-infection

MG Berg, D Lee, K Coller, M Frankel… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human pegivirus (HPgV), formerly GBV-C, are the only known
human viruses in the Hepacivirus and Pegivirus genera, respectively, of the family …

Tropism of human pegivirus (formerly known as GB virus C/hepatitis G virus) and host immunomodulation: insights into a highly successful viral infection

ET Chivero, JT Stapleton - Journal of General Virology, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
Human pegivirus (HPgV; originally called GB virus C/hepatitis G virus) is an RNA virus
within the genus Pegivirus of the family Flaviviridae that commonly causes persistent …

Human pegivirus type 1: a common human virus that is beneficial in immune-mediated disease?

JT Stapleton - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Two groups identified a novel human flavivirus in the mid-1990s. One group named the virus
hepatitis G virus (HGV) and the other named it GB Virus type C (GBV-C). Sequence …

GB virus C coinfections in west African Ebola patients

M Lauck, AL Bailey, KG Andersen, TL Goldberg… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
In 49 patients with known Ebola virus disease outcomes during the ongoing outbreak in
Sierra Leone, 13 were coinfected with the immunomodulatory pegivirus GB virus C (GBV-C) …

Evolutionary and phylogenetic analysis of the hepaciviruses and pegiviruses

J Thézé, S Lowes, J Parker… - Genome Biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The known genetic diversity of the hepaciviruses and pegiviruses has increased greatly in
recent years through the discovery of viruses related to hepatitis C virus and human …