Adefovir serum levels do not differ between responders and nonresponders.

abstract：:In hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, serum viral load is important in the prediction of therapeutic efficacy. However, factors that affect the viral load remain poorly understood. To identify viral genomic elements responsible for the viral load, we investigated samples from a population of Irish women who were iatro...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Itakura J,Nagayama K,Enomoto N,Hamano K,Sakamoto N,Fanning LJ,Kenny-Walsh E,Shanahan F,Watanabe M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the severe shortage of the donor pool in China, a large number of patients are waiting for a suitable liver, or even worse lose the opportunity of transplantation. Reasonable use of hepatitis B surface antigen-positive (HBsAg-positive) donors is one possible strategy to increase the donor pool but the long-term...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Wei L,Chen D,Zhang B,Zhao Y,Liu B,Shi H,Zeng F,Ming C,Jiang J,Du D,Chen Z

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate, among 70 hepatitis C virus (HCV)-monoinfected and 36 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-coinfected naïve patients with genotypes 1/4 receiving weight-adjusted pegylated interferon-alpha-2b/ribavirin, viral kinetics and the feasibility to predict treatment failure measuring early HCV-RNA decreases. HCV-RNA...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Moreno A,Bárcena R,García-Garzón S,Moreno L,Quereda C,Muriel A,Zamora J,Mateos ML,Pérez-Elías MJ,Antela A,Diz S,Moreno A,Moreno S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) frequently coinfect and persist long after clinical resolution. We assessed the incidence of low-level (occult) HCV infection (OCI) after sustained virological response (SVR) to standard anti-HCV therapy in individuals with or without past exposure to HBV to recogniz...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Pham TN,Coffin CS,Churchill ND,Urbanski SJ,Lee SS,Michalak TI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 5% of the healthy adult population respond inadequately to the commercial recombinant hepatitis B vaccines. As the recombinant vaccines all have an aluminium-based adjuvant, we tried to enhance the immune response by adding a cytokine-based adjuvant. This new adjuvant AI20, containing 20 μg recombinant h...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Koc ÖM,Savelkoul PHM,van Loo IHM,Peeters A,Oude Lashof AML

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating microRNAs (miRNA) have been intensely investigated as biomarkers in disease and therapy. Several studies have identified miR-122 as an important regulator of HCV replication. The effect of new therapies that directly target the HCV replication life cycle on circulating microRNA levels has not been elucidat...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Waring JF,Dumas EO,Abel S,Coakley E,Cohen DE,Davis JW,Podsadecki T,Dutta S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to assess whether caesarean section and nonbreastfeeding can prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) in HBsAg- and HBeAg-positive mothers via a cohort study and a meta-analysis. (1) Pregnant women who were positive for HBsAg and HBeAg and did not receive antiviral treatment during pregnancy were re...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Pan YC,Jia ZF,Wang YQ,Yang N,Liu JX,Zhai XJ,Song Y,Wang C,Li J,Jiang J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-alpha 2b (IFN-alpha 2b) can exert antiproliferative activity in both normal and malignant liver tissue. To study mechanisms of its antiproliferative action, the activity of the enzymes of adenosine metabolism were investigated. We studied 5'-nucleotidase (an adenosine-producing enzyme) and adenosine deamina...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kocić G,Kocić R,Vlahović P,Pavlović D,Jevtović T

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among individuals with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, approximately 30% of patients show persistently normal alanine aminotransferase (PNALT). Individuals with PNALT have been historically excluded from antiviral treatment. However, some studies have reported sudden worsening of disease in patients with PN...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Derbala MF,Amer AM,Almohanadi M,John A,Amin A,John A,Sharma M,Alkaabi SR,Al Dweik NZ,Pasic F,Yaqoob R,Butt MT,Shebl FM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR gamma) is a nuclear receptor that regulates gene expression of inflammatory mediators in liver injury. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) suppresses the PPAR gamma-mediated transactivation in liver cancerous cell lines. However, the role of PPAR gamma in patients with chroni...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Zhao Q,Fan YC,Zhao J,Gao S,Zhao ZH,Wang K

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has been reported to have an increased prevalence and to be associated with more severe fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C. We evaluated the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with chronic hepatitis B or C as well as the possible association between presence of diabetes and extent...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Papatheodoridis GV,Chrysanthos N,Savvas S,Sevastianos V,Kafiri G,Petraki K,Manesis EK

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive impairment occurs in 30%-50% of patients with non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Exercise is beneficial in preventing and treating cognitive impairment and cardiometabolic abnormalities in many chronic inflammatory diseases, but there are few studies investigating the impact of exercise...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： O'Gorman P,Strahan O,Ferguson D,Monaghan A,Kennedy M,Forde C,Melo AM,Doherty DG,O'Brien KK,McKiernan S,Kenny RA,Coen R,Doherty C,Bergin C,Gormley J,Norris S

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tattooing is recognized as a risk factor for transmission of hepatitis C, the efficiency with which transmission occurs is unknown. Sera stored from a serosurvey of tattooists undertaken in 1984 to test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) provided the opportunity to determine the prevalence of serological ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Thompson SC,Goudey RE,Breschkin AM,Carnie J,Catton M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the past decade, a specific hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype A strain has been prevalent among men having sex with men (MSM) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. At what point in time this strain was introduced in the MSM population, and why only this specific strain continues to be transmitted, remains unclear. Between...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： van Houdt R,Bruisten SM,Geskus RB,Bakker M,Wolthers KC,Prins M,Coutinho RA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is still an important issue worldwide. A distinct set of viruses encode proteins that enhance viral cap-independent translation initiation driven by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and suppress cap-dependent host translation. Unlike cytolytic picornaviruses, replication of HAV ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kanda T,Gauss-Müller V,Cordes S,Tamura R,Okitsu K,Shuang W,Nakamoto S,Fujiwara K,Imazeki F,Yokosuka O

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment studies, Black patients not only had a lower sustained viral response (SVR) rate to interferon and ribavirin (RBV) than non-Black patients but also a higher frequency of HCV genotype 1 (GT-1) infection. The aim of this community-based study was to determine whether Black p...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Bräu N,Bini EJ,Currie S,Shen H,Schmidt WN,King PD,Ho SB,Cheung RC,Hu KQ,Anand BS,Simon FR,Aytaman A,Johnson DP,Awad JA,Ahmad J,Mendenhall CL,Pedrosa MC,Moseley RH,Hagedorn CH,Waters B,Chang KM,Morgan TR,Rossi

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of perinatal transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) from a cohort of 95 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative intravenous drug users (IVDU) is described, 89 of whom were positive for antibodies to HCV (anti-HCV). Infection, defined as the presence of HCV RNA in a serum sample collected from an infant a...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Spencer JD,Latt N,Beeby PJ,Collins E,Saunders JB,McCaughan GW,Cossart YE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of a preventative vaccine, chronic hepatitis B (CHB) remains a global healthcare challenge with the risk of disease progression due to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Although current treatment strategies, interferon and nucleos(t)ide analogues have contributed to reducing morbidity an...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Gill US,Kennedy PTF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present study were to assess initial virological response (IVR) to adefovir (ADV) treatment for chronic hepatitis B, to identify patients with suboptimal response and to determine the incidence of ADV-resistant mutants. All patients treated with ADV for at least 12 months were evaluated for virological...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Gallego A,Sheldon J,García-Samaniego J,Margall N,Romero M,Hornillos P,Soriano V,Enrĺquez J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of studies have reported on spontaneous viral clearance rates in acute hepatitis C infection, however most have been small, and reported rates have varied quite widely. To improve the precision of the estimated rate of spontaneous viral clearance, a systematic review was conducted of longitudinal studie...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Micallef JM,Kaldor JM,Dore GJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many Indigenous Australians in northern Australia living with chronic hepatitis B are unaware of their diagnosis due to low screening rates. A venous blood point of care test (POCT) or oral fluid laboratory test could improve testing uptake in this region. The purpose of this study was to assess the field performance ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Sullivan RP,Davies J,Binks P,Dhurrkay RG,Gurruwiwi GG,Bukulatjpi SM,McKinnon M,Hosking K,Littlejohn M,Jackson K,Locarnini S,Davis JS,Tong SYC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatments for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, many people remain undiagnosed and untreated. We assessed the cost-effectiveness of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HCV screening and treatment programme within a primary health clinic in Karachi, Pak...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Mafirakureva N,Lim AG,Khalid GG,Aslam K,Campbell L,Zahid H,Van den Bergh R,Falq G,Fortas C,Wailly Y,Auat R,Donchuk D,Loarec A,Coast J,Vickerman P,Walker JG

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neumann et al. [1] developed a widely used model for the analysis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) dynamics after the initiation of interferon therapy that assumes the effectiveness of therapy in blocking virion production, epsilon, is constant. However, with pegylated interferon alpha-2b (PEG-IFN) given weekly, there are s...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Shudo E,Ribeiro RM,Perelson AS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the association of HIV RNA with indirect markers of liver injury including FIB-4 index, liver enzymes and platelet counts in a high-risk Hispanic population. The data were derived from a prospective study that included 138 HIV/hepatitis C (HCV)-coinfected and 68 HIV-infected participants without he...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Forrester JE,Rhee MS,McGovern BH,Sterling RK,Knox TA,Terrin N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a human hepatotropic virus, but many hepatoma cell lines are not permissive to this virus. In a previous study, we observed that SNU-182, SNU-398 and SNU-449 hepatoma cell lines were nonpermissive to HCV. To understand the nonpermissivity, we evaluated the ability of each cell line to suppor...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Fournier C,Hoffmann TW,Morel V,Descamps V,Dubuisson J,Brochot E,Francois C,Duverlie G,Castelain S,Helle F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pegylated interferon-α (PEG-IFN-α) plus ribavirin (RBV) treatment fails to achieve a sustained virological response (SVR) in approximately 20-50% of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. We assessed the contribution of an anti-IFN-α neutralizing antibody (NAb) on the nonresponse to treatment. NAbs w...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Matsuda F,Torii Y,Enomoto H,Kuga C,Aizawa N,Iwata Y,Saito M,Imanishi H,Shimomura S,Nakamura H,Tanaka H,Iijima H,Tsutsui H,Tanaka Y,Nishiguchi S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic hepatitis C infection leads to increased hepatocyte apoptosis. Because engulfment of apoptotic bodies (ABs) by hepatic stellate cells (HSC) is profibrogenic, we compared the effects of ABs derived from hepatitis C virus (HCV)-negative vs HCV-infected (Con1+) Huh7 hepatoblastoma cells on fibrogenic and activati...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Gieseler RK,Marquitan G,Schlattjan M,Sowa JP,Bechmann LP,Timm J,Roggendorf M,Gerken G,Friedman SL,Canbay A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaemia during peginterferon (PEG-IFN) and ribavirin (RBV) therapy is common in human immunodeficiency virus/hepatitis C virus (HIV/HCV)-coinfected patients despite the use of lower doses of RBV than are recommended for HIV-seronegative persons. In addition, concurrent zidovudine (ZDV) may exacerbate the anaemia cause...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Alvarez D,Dieterich DT,Brau N,Moorehead L,Ball L,Sulkowski MS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related chronic infection under treatment by nucleos(t)ide analogues (NUCs), HBsAg clearance is the ultimate therapeutic goal but very infrequent. We investigated how HBV envelope protein variability could lead to differential HBsAg clearance on NUCs. For 12 HBV genotype D patients receivin...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Velay A,Jeulin H,Eschlimann M,Malvé B,Goehringer F,Bensenane M,Frippiat JP,Abraham P,Ismail AM,Murray JM,Combet C,Zoulim F,Bronowicki JP,Schvoerer E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients chronically infected by hepatitis C virus (HCV) experience symptoms like fatigue, dyspnea and reduced physical activity. However, in many patients, these symptoms are not proportional to the liver involvement and could resemble symptoms of chronic heart failure. To our knowledge, no study evaluated serum...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Antonelli A,Ferri C,Ferrari SM,Colaci M,Sebastiani M,Zignego AL,Ghiri E,Goglia F,Fallahi P

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00