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Volume 26, Number 2—February 2020
Research

Chronic Human Pegivirus 2 without Hepatitis C Virus Co-infection

Kelly E. CollerComments to Author , Veronica Bruce, Michael Cassidy, Jeffrey Gersch, Matthew B. Frankel, Ana Vallari, Gavin Cloherty, John Hackett, Jennifer L. Evans, Kimberly Page, and George J. Dawson
Author affiliations: Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA (K.E. Coller, M. Cassidy, J. Gersch, M.B. Frankel, A. Vallari, G. Cloherty, J. Hackett, Jr., G.J. Dawson); University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (V. Bruce, K. Page); University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (J.L. Evans)

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Table 5

Characteristics of findings in study of chronic HPgV-2 infection for participants with and without HCV co-infection in injection drug users in the San Francisco Bay area, California, USA*

Finding HCV negative, n = 3 HCV positive, n = 2 p value
Average HPgV-2, log10 copies/mL
NS2/3 3.26 3.21 0.11
5′ UTR
 1.71
 1.60
 0.36
Average years injection drug use† 5.5 7.9 NA
Average age at detection of HPgV-2 RNA, y† 25.6 26.1 NA

*HCV, hepatitis C virus; HPgV-2, human pegivirus 2; NS, nonstructural protein.
†No p values available because of low number of samples.

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