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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016

Evaluation of Viremia Frequencies of a Novel Human Pegivirus by Using Bioinformatic Screening and PCR

David Bonsall, William F. Gregory, Camilla L.C. Ip, Sharyne Donfield, James Iles, M. Azim Ansari, Paolo Piazza, Amy Trebes, Anthony Brown, John Frater, Oliver G. Pybus, Phillip Goulder, Paul Klenerman, Rory Bowden, Edward D. Gomperts, Eleanor Barnes, Amit Kapoor, Colin P. Sharp, and Peter Simmonds

Author affiliations: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (D. Bonsall, C.L.C. Ip, J. Iles, M.A. Ansari, P. Piazza, A. Trebes, A. Brown, J. Frater, O.G. Pybus, P. Goulder, P. Klenerman, R. Bowden, E. Barnes, P. Simmonds); University of Edinburgh Easter Bush, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (W.F. Gregory, C.P. Sharp); Rho, Inc., Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA (S. Donfield); The Childrens' Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA (E.D. Gomperts); The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA (A. Kapoor)

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Detection frequencies of HPgV by sequence library screening and PCR*

Diagnostic method	Diagnoses and characteristics	No. tested	No. (%) HHpgV-1+	No. (%) HPgV+
Bioinformatics
	HIV+	36	0	3 (8.3)
	HIV+/HCV+/PWID	30	0	3 (10.0)
	HCV+/PWID	120	2 (1.7)	14 (11.6)
PCR
	Hemophilia†	195	1 (0.5)	18 (9.2)
	Control group‡	50	0	1 (2.0)

*HPgV, human pegivirus; HHpgV, human hepegivirus; +, positive;HCV, hepatitis C virus; PWID, persons who inject drugs.
†Previously exposed to virally inactivated factor VIII/IX; all seropositive for HCV.
‡No history of parenteral exposure; HIV-1 and HCV negative.

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