Existing treatment criteria for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are mainly based on data from observational studies, such as the REVEAL study from Taiwan, which was initiated in the early ...

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, ...

Hepatitis C is an infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the United States, it is the most common blood-borne infection, impacting around 2.4 million Americans, or ...

Teng J; Du Y; Visalath P; Zhou T; Du B; Zhang Q; Cai W BACKGROUND: Traditionally part of chronic hepatitis B (CHB ... in the study to evaluate liver histology and to identify the need of antiviral ...

(1) Studies involving non-cirrhotic or non-CHB-related cirrhosis patients; (2) Patients co-infected with other hepatitis viruses (A, C, D, or E) or human immunodeficiency virus; (3) Patients with ...

Hepatitis B is inflammation of the liver in hominoidea, including humans, caused by the hepatitis B virus. The virus is transmitted by parenteral exposure, such as by exposure to infectious blood ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

At least a dozen people have been sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM ...

A team from the University of Geneva UNIGE-HUG Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases, MSF, MSF Epicentre, Johns Hopkins University and South Sudanese Ministry of Health has demonstrated the effectiveness ...

You can contract hepatitis C by blood-to-blood contact. Ways to avoid reinfection to the hepatitis C virus include avoiding sharing needles and using condoms or another barrier method during sex.

Hepatitis and cirrhosis are both diseases that affect the liver. Since hepatitis and cirrhosis are in many ways on a continuum of disease, the symptoms may be very similar. However, there are a ...