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Virus-like particles associated with reverse transcriptase activity in acute sporadic non-A,non-B hepatitis
I Castillo1, V Carreño, F J Bartolomé
1Department of Gastroenterology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.
Digestion
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Reverse transcriptase activity was tested in 65 patients with non-A,non-B hepatitis, with positive results in 2 acute sporadic cases with favorable outcome. Virus-like particles were observed in ultra-thin sections of successive serum samples from one of the reverse transcriptase activity-positive patients by electron microscopy. These results suggest that some non-A,non-B hepatitis types could be related to a virus-like agent associated with a reverse transcriptase activity.