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ReviewInfectious diseases and therapy2017

New Viral and Immunological Targets for Hepatitis B Treatment and Cure: A Review.

Joop E Arends, Faydra I Lieveld, Shazaad Ahmad, Andrew Ustianowski

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Review in Infectious diseases and therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. Combination of saikosaponin c and telbivudine synergistically enhances the anti-HBV activity.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2020
    Article
  4. Article
  5. The As and Bs of HIV and Hepatitis Co-Infection.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2019
    Review
  6. Review
  7. HIV, HCV and HBV: A Review of Parallels and Differences.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2018
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Towards HBV curative therapies.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2018
    Review
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

4 authors.

Joop E ArendsDepartment of Internal Medicine, Section Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. j.e.arends@umcutrecht.nl.
Faydra I LieveldDepartment of Internal Medicine, Section Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Shazaad AhmadRegional Infectious Diseases Unit, North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, UK.
Andrew UstianowskiRegional Infectious Diseases Unit, North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although current therapies can be successful at suppressing hepatitis B viral load, long-term viral cure is not within reach. Subsequent strategies combining pegylated interferon alfa with nucleoside/nucleotide analogues have not resulted in any major paradigm shift. An improved understanding of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) lifec ycle and virus-induced immune dysregulation has, however, revealed many potential therapeutic targets, and there are hopes that treatment of hepatitis B could soon be revolutionized. This review summarizes the current developments in HBV therapeutics-both virus directed and host directed.

Indexed as

Antiviral therapyHepatitis B virusImmunomodulatorsNonnucleoside antiviralsNucleoside analogues

Identifiers

PMID29071665
PMCPMC5700893

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