New clues to hepatitis B species restriction could help build a novel model for studying infection

Some 254 million people live with a chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection that is often asymptomatic for decades, only to ...
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New Model Estimates Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis B

A new prognostic model could potentially predict and stratify the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) among patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who are noncirrhotic and not indicated for ...
Medscape

New Model Predicts HCC Risk After Hepatitis B Seroclearance

A model with six independent variables predicts the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma after hepatitis B surface antigen seroclearance in patients with chronic hepatitis B.
The New England Journal of Medicine

New Approaches to Chronic Hepatitis B

HBV is a partially double-stranded DNA virus. The life cycle and therapeutic targets are shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. The spherical 42-nm virion comprises an envelope that is outside a 30-nm ...
BioWorld

AD-66810 siRNA shows antiviral efficacy in preclinical HBV infection model

Previous studies have found that the effectiveness of vaccines can be increased with the knockdown of HBsAg using a small interfering RNA (siRNA). The efficacy of a bivalent mRNA vaccine in ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Incidence: New cases of chronic viral hepatitis B and C infections Between 6 and 10 ...