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Recent Discoveries in Microbiology (GATE - XL)
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In 2015, which virus was discovered by Amit Kapoor et al. in old samples of the blood that was found to reduce the pathogenesis of HIV?
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Human hepegivirus 1
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Human hepegivirus 1 was discovered by Amit Kapoor, a virologist at Columbia University, in old blood samples. Later it was shown that HIV-infected people benefit from co-infection with hepegivirus, it reduces the pathogenesis of HIV.