Public health clinic-based hepatitis C testing and linkage to care in Baltimore.

abstract：:Response to interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) treatment in hepatitis C is poorer when cirrhosis is present. In the third Australian multicentre hepatitis C trial, Aushep-3, we examined the efficacy and tolerability of an intensive 24-week course of interferon-alpha 2a in Child-Pugh grade A patients with chronic hepatitis C...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Farrell G,Cooksley WG,Dudley FJ,Watson K

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL28B and inosine triphosphatase (ITPA) polymorphisms are able to predict treatment response and degree of ribavirin-related anaemia, respectively, in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. However, their roles in the treatment of chronic HCV genotype 6 remain undetermined. Sixty patients who were...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Seto WK,Tsang OT,Liu K,Chan JM,Wong DK,Fung J,Lai CL,Yuen MF

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-based vaccination appears of promise for chronic hepatitis B immunotherapy, although there is an urgent need to increase its efficacy. In this preclinical study, we evaluated the therapeutic benefit of cytokine (IL-2, IFN-γ) genes co-delivery with DNA vaccine targeting hepadnaviral proteins in the chronic duck hep...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Saade F,Buronfosse T,Guerret S,Pradat P,Chevallier M,Zoulim F,Jamard C,Cova L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the molecular and pharmacokinetic mechanisms of the enhanced antiviral efficacy associated with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) alpha-2b and ribavirin. The study involved comparing the expression of serial double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) before and during treatment in 26 PEG-I...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Asahina Y,Izumi N,Umeda N,Hosokawa T,Ueda K,Doi F,Tsuchiya K,Nakanishi H,Matsunaga K,Kitamura T,Kurosaki M,Uchihara M,Higaki M,Miyake S

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C who have not responded to interferon (IFN) is still an unsolved issue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of a high dose of IFN-alpha2a plus amantadine for chronic hepatitis C patients who were non-responders to a previous cours...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Gaeta GB,Stornaiuolo G,Stanzione M,Ascione T,Pasquazzi C,Taliani G,Cimino L,Budillon G,Piccinino F

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of an in vitro system for hepatitis C virus (HCV) propagation is essential to characterize virus replication, virus persistence and viral pathogenicity. The aim was to establish HCV replication in HepG2 cells by gene transfer of infectious HCV cDNA. First, several gene transfer methods were evaluated...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Hiramatsu N,Dash S,Gerber MA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through molecular virological testing it is now clear that HCV reinfection of the allograft is virtually universal in liver transplant recipients. Although histopathological recurrence of hepatitis C occurs in the majority of patients, it is absent in a substantial minority. To date, no prognostic factors, other than ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Vierling JM,Villamil FG,Rojter SE,Camacho KB,Goldman DE

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:The treatment option in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with persistent low-level viremia despite entecavir or tenofovir monotherapy is unclear. This study investigated the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or cirrhosis in hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive high viral load CHB patients, according to...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Nam JY,Chang Y,Cho H,Kang SH,Cho YY,Cho EJ,Lee JH,Yu SJ,Yoon JH,Kim YJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiviral therapy has been shown to improve the prognosis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA-positive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after radical treatment, but antiviral treatments require further optimization. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacies of different antiviral strategies with HCC patients after hepatect...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Qi W,Zhang Q,Xu Y,Wang X,Yu F,Zhang Y,Zhao P,Guo H,Zhou C,Wang Z,Sun Y,Liu L,Xuan W,Wang J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the concept that off-therapy hepatitis flares with increasing qHBsAg require immediate re-treatment whereas re-treatment can be held or not necessary for those with decreasing qHBsAg, pre-retreatment combined HBsAg/ALT kinetics were classified in 22 patients with severe hepatitis flare (ALT > 30X ULN) and chec...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Chien RN,Liaw YF

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is considered a major health problem in the world. HBV is classified into genotypes A to J disseminated worldwide. Genotypes A, D and F are the most frequent in the Western World, B and C are predominant in the East, and E, F, H and J are infrequent and restricted to specific regions....

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Wolf JM,De Carli S,Pereira VRZB,Simon D,Lunge VR

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:It is unclear whether the achievement of virologic response modifies the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) differently in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and chronic hepatitis C (CHC). Our aim was to compare the risk of HCC between patients with CHB and CHC who achieved virological response. We analysed data from patie...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kim GA,Han S,Kim HD,An J,Lim YS

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-dose induction with alpha-interferon induces early viral clearance of hepatitis C and combined with ribavirin enhances sustained response. We assess whether adding ribavirin after viral clearance obtained by alpha-interferon induction increased the rate of viral eradication.Forty-one naïve patients with chronic h...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Di Marco V,Ferraro D,Almasio P,Vaccaro A,Parisi P,Cappello M,Cino N,Di Stefano R,Craxì A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:A simian hepatitis A virus (HAV) was identified retrospectively in a faecal sample from a rhesus monkey in India, inoculated in 1995 with a faecal suspension from a suspected patient of non-A to E hepatitis. The monkey was in captivity for 2 years in one of the experimental primate facilities in western India b...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Arankalle VA,Ramakrishnan J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary.  Directly acting antiviral (DAA) agents are currently revolutionizing the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection. The first generation of these agents have significant limitations including cost issues that are of particular concern in the developing world and a lack of efficacy in genotype 3 patients. Bo...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Ahmed F

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon (IFN)-alpha is a family of antiviral proteins encoded by different genes. The biological significance of the existence of various IFN-alpha subtypes is not clear. We have investigated the interferon system in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a disease that responds to interferon-alpha2 therapy in ...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Larrea E,Alberdi A,Castelruiz Y,Boya P,Civeira MP,Prieto J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with biopsy-proven chronic hepatitis C, who failed to respond to a previous course of either recombinant (rIFN-alpha) or lymphoblastoid (Ly IFN-alpha) interferon-alpha, were randomized to receive either leucocyte (Le) IFN-alpha (patients) or a second course of the same IFN-alpha (controls), to compare the eff...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Gaeta GB,Di Virgilio D,Russo G,Stornaiuolo G,Nicolella U,Colella F,Grimaldi M,Pasquale G,Giusti G

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection appears to contribute to the development of insulin resistance (IR). Among the multiple determinants of IR, body mass index (BMI) is the most important. We investigated the contribution of HCV to BMI-associated IR using a transgenic mouse model expressing HCV core protein. Eight trans...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Delgado-Borrego A,Kamegaya Y,Jordan SH,Agrawal S,Valim C,Chung RT

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis A incidence has declined in most countries through a combination of prevention measures, augmented through the use of a highly effective vaccine. In Australia, the proportion of the population susceptible to hepatitis A infection has declined over time due to high rates of opportunistic vaccination as well a...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Jayasundara D,Hui BB,Regan DG,Heywood AE,MacIntyre CR,Wood JG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis B. Several inflammatory diseases are associated with distinct polymorphisms of the ICAM-1 gene. The aims of this study were to analyse the association of ICAM-1 polymorphisms G241R and K469E with susceptibility to...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Zhang XQ,Hong XJ,Bai XJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although long-term antiviral treatment with nucleos(t)ide analogs (NAs) can lead to histological improvement in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), a substantial proportion of patients still fail to achieve regression of fibrosis. Here, we investigated whether peginterferon alpha (Peg-IFNα） add-on therapy had ben...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Li G,Zhang Q,Yu Y,Qiu C,Zhang H,Zhang M,Song Z,Yang Y,Hong J,Lu J,Li N,Tang Q,Xu L,Wang X,Zhang W,Chen Z

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injecting behaviour in people who inject drugs is the main risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Psychosocial factors such as having a partner who injects drugs and living with other drug users have been associated with increases in injecting risk behaviour. This study aimed to investigate changes in inje...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Malaguti A,Sani F,Stephens BP,Ahmad F,Dugard P,Dillon JF,ERADICATE-C Study Group.

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) RNA editing controls the formation of hepatitis-delta-antigen-S and -L and therefore indirectly regulates HDV replication. Editing is thought to be catalysed by the adenosine deaminase acting on RNA1 (ADAR1) of which two different forms exist, interferon (IFN)-alpha-inducible ADAR1-L and co...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Hartwig D,Schütte C,Warnecke J,Dorn I,Hennig H,Kirchner H,Schlenke P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to investigate the features and clinical implications of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes, basal core promoter (BCP) and precore (PC) mutations in hepatitis B-related acute-on-chronic liver failure (HB-ACLF). Samples from 75 patients with HB-ACLF and without pre-existing liver cirrhosis and 3...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Ren X,Xu Z,Liu Y,Li X,Bai S,Ding N,Zhong Y,Wang L,Mao P,Zoulim F,Xu D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant advances have been made, during the last 5 years, in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. Several new antiviral agents: lamivudine, famciclovir, lobucavir and adefovir, have been shown to be safe and effective in inhibiting hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication. These compounds can be administered orally an...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Hussain M,Lok AS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cameroon is thought to have one of the highest prevalences of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the world (4.9% among adults). A marked cohort effect exists in several communities where ≈50% of the elderly are infected. Better assessment of HCV distribution is needed for planning treatment programmes. We tested for...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Njouom R,Siffert I,Texier G,Lachenal G,Tejiokem MC,Pépin J,Fontanet A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection among women of reproductive age residing in areas of China that are highly endemic for chronic HBV, and provide evidence useful for decision-makers to guide strategies for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HBV, and assess the impact of perinata...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Zheng H,Cui FQ,Wang FZ,Huang LF,Shao XP,Du JF,Li J,Zhou Y,Zheng HZ,Zhuo JT,Zeng XX,Zhang GM,Miao N,Sun XJ,Liang XF,Luo HM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extremely low levels of serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA can be detected by COBAS TaqMan HCV test. To investigate whether the COBAS TaqMan HCV test is useful for measuring rapid virological response (RVR) and early virological response (EVR) to predict sustained virological response (SVR), we compared the virological...

journal_title：Journal of viral hepatitis

authors： Kanda T,Imazeki F,Yonemitsu Y,Mikami S,Takada N,Nishino T,Takashi M,Tsubota A,Kato K,Sugiura N,Tawada A,Wu S,Tanaka T,Nakamoto S,Mikata R,Tada M,Chiba T,Kurihara T,Arai M,Fujiwara K,Kanai F,Yokosuka O

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00