GB virus C

Meaning

Noun

• Pegivirus C (species), an RNA Pegivirus (genus) that infects humans, though not known to cause human disease; coinfection seems to slow the progression of HIV disease

Related

Similar words

• HPgV
• hepatitis G virus (HGV)

Origin

• named after a surgeon, G. Barker, who fell ill in 1966 with a non-A non-B hepatitis, at the time thought to be caused by a new, infectious hepatic virus