%0 Journal Article %A Itoh, Yukio %A Iwakiri, Shigenori %A Kitajima, Kohji %A Gotanda, Tohru %A Miyaki, Michiko %A Miyakawa, Yuzo %A Mayumi, Makoto %T Lack of Detectable Reverse Transcriptase Activity in Human and Chimpanzee Sera with a High Infectivity for Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis %D 1986 %J Journal of General Virology, %V 67 %N 4 %P 777-779 %@ 1465-2099 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-67-4-777 %K post-transfusion %K non-A %K non-B hepatitis %K hepatitis %K reverse transcriptase %I Microbiology Society, %X Summary A serum sample from a patient with hepatitis and samples from two experimentally infected chimpanzees, all with a high infectivity for non-A, non-B hepatitis, were tested for reverse transcriptase. Biopsy confirmed that the hepatocytes of the chimpanzees that received these sera contained the characteristic tubular structures associated with non-A, non-B hepatitis. None of these three sera revealed detectable enzyme activity. We have not been able to confirm the association of reverse transcriptase activity with non-A, non-B hepatitis reported recently. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-67-4-777