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Hepatitis Viruses
Hepatitis is a clinical syndrome caused by many pathogens, including viruses. Viral hepatitis denotes a primary infection caused by a heterologous...
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Hepatitis E Virus
This book systematically and comprehensively discusses the biological, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics of the hepatitis E virus (HEV)....
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Treatment of Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections are the most common cause of acute hepatitis, but they can also take a chronic course. There is no specific...
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Epidemiology of Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is globally prevalent with relatively high percentages of anti-HEV immunoglobulin G-positive individuals in the populations...
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Clinical Manifestations of Hepatitis E
The clinical manifestations of hepatitis E are similar to those of other types of viral hepatitis. While acute hepatitis E is usually self-limited,...
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Prophylactic Hepatitis E Vaccine
The hepatitis E has been increasingly recognized as an underestimated global disease burden in recent years. Subpopulations with more serious...
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Hepatitis E Virus Zoonotic Axis
Viral hepatitis is primarily caused by five unrelated hepatotropic viruses, hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. While hepatitis A through C are commonly...
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Hepatitis E Virus
Since the sequence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) was determined from a patient with enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis in 1989, similar...
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Hepatitis B virus reactivation in seronegative occult hepatitis B patient receiving ibrutinib therapy
BackgroundIbrutinib is a Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor approved for the treatment for several mature B-cell malignancies. Reactivation of...
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Puzzles for Hepatitis E Virus
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important but understudied virus that has been the major cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. In recent decades,...
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Transmission of Hepatitis E Virus
Transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV) occurs predominantly by the fecal–oral route. Large epidemics of hepatitis E in the develo** countries of...
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Direct Antiviral Agents for Hepatitis C
The development of direct antiviral agents (DAA) for treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection is one of the greatest achievements in medical...
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Path to Cure Hepatitis B: How Far Are We?
Hepatitis B infection is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which damages the liver and can lead to chronic liver diseases such as cirrhosis and...
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Morphogenesis of Hepatitis E Virus
Hepatitis E virus, a leading cause of acute hepatitis worldwide, has been recognized as non-enveloped virus since its discovery in the 1980s....
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Hepatitis E Virus Life Cycle
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infects over 20 million people worldwide per year, leading to 30,000–40,000 deaths. In most cases HEV infection in a...
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Host sex disparity and viral genotype dependence of the glycosylation level of small Hepatitis B surface protein in patients with HBeAg-positive chronic Hepatitis B
BackgroundHepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) consists of six components of large/middle/small HBs proteins (L/M/SHBs) with non-glycosylated (ng)- or...
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Animal Models for Hepatitis E Virus
Animal models are one of the most important tools in the study of human hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection. They are particularly important in light...