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Hepatitis delta in patients with resolved hepatitis B virus infection
(European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2018-09)
Background The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) causes the most aggressive form of chronic viral hepatitis. As HDV replication requires hepatitis B virus (HBV), HDV screening is limited to HBsAg+ carriers. To date, individuals ...
Overt and occult hepatitis B among immigrants and native blood donors in Madrid, Spain
(Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2020-12)
Background:
The risk of transfusion-transmitted viral infections is very low in developed countries. Recent massive migration flows from highly hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and/or HIV endemic regions ...
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for viral infections other than HIV
(Infezioni in Medicina, 2022)
The battle against human viral infections has histori-cally relied on two medical strategies, namely vaccines to protect from contagion and antivirals to treat infected patients. In the absence of vaccines, antivirals have ...
Hepatitis C hospitalizations in Spain and impact of new curative antiviral therapies
(Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 2022)
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is major cause of decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer. The advent of curative new antiviral therapies since year 2015 has dramatically improved the prognosis of HCV patients. ...
Viral hepatitis in persons living with HIV in the post-COVID era
(AIDS reviews, 2023)
Coinfection with hepatitis viruses A to E is frequent in persons living with HIV (PLWH) and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Oro-fecal transmissible hepatitis A and E mostly produce acute self-limited episodes ...