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ReviewVirusdisease2015

Hepatitis B virus infection: An insight into infection outcomes and recent treatment options.

Faseeha Noordeen

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Review in Virusdisease, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Faseeha NoordeenFaculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
University of Peradeniya · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) currently infects an estimated population of 2 billion individuals in the world, including 400 million people with chronic HBV infection. HBV virology, replication and the host's immune response to HBV infection contribute to different infection outcomes. Acute hepatitis HBV infection is self-limiting but it leaves a residual infection that can become active in an individual during immunosuppression. In chronic HBV infection, the virus persistently replicates in hepatocytes leading to immune mediated hepatocellular damage. Despite the inability to remove the virus in more than 70 % of patients, current treatments for chronic HBV infection, interferon alpha and antiviral nucleotide/nucleoside analogues, aim to reduce viral replication to prevent or at least delay the progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In both self resolved acute and persistent HBV infection, the long term existence of chromatinised covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) in the nuclei of infected hepatocytes cannot be targeted by current treatments to eliminate these templates to eradicate the viral persistence. Identifying the mechanisms involve in the removal of infected hepatocytes will be useful as treatment options. In this context, DNA based novel therapeutic and immunization strategies might help to remove stable cccDNA and thus viral persistence.

Indexed as

Hepatitis B virusInfection outcomesNatural historyVaccination and treatment

Identifiers

PMID26436115
PMCPMC4585049
OpenAlexW2049438537

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Registered trials

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