TY - JOUR AU - Anh, Nguyen To AU - Hong, Nguyen Thi Thu AU - Nhu, Le Nguyen Truc AU - Thanh, Tran Tan AU - Anscombe, Catherine AU - Chau, Le Ngoc AU - Thanh, Tran Thi Thanh AU - Lau, Chuen-Yen AU - Limmathurotsakul, Direk AU - Chau, Nguyen Van Vinh AU - Rogier van Doorn, H. AU - Deng, Xutao AU - Rahman, Motiur AU - Delwart, Eric AU - Le, Thuy AU - Thwaites, Guy AU - Van Tan, Le T1 - Detection and Characterization of Human Pegivirus 2, Vietnam T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 11 SP - 2063 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - human pegivirus 2 KW - human hepegivirus 1 KW - Vietnam KW - HCV KW - HIV KW - hepatitis and sepsis KW - viruses DO - 10.3201/eid2411.180668 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/11/18-0668_article ER - End of Reference