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Meeting the Challenge of Eliminating Chronic Hepatitis B Infection.

Peter A Revill, Capucine Penicaud, Christian Brechot, Fabien Zoulim

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Review in Genes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 32 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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Peter A RevillVictorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia. peter.revill@mh.org.au.
Capucine PenicaudDirectorate, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia. Capucine.Penicaud@unimelb.edu.au.
Christian BrechotUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, 33612, USA. christian.brechot@pasteur.fr.
Fabien ZoulimINSERM Unit 1052-Cancer Research Center of Lyon, 69000 Lyon, France. fabien.zoulim@inserm.fr.
Inserm · FRPeter Doherty Institute · AURomark (United States) · USUniversity of Melbourne · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over 257 million people live with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and there is no known cure. The effective preventative vaccine has no impact on existing infection. Despite the existence of drugs which efficiently suppress viral replication, treatment is usually life-long and finite therapies that cure HBV infection are urgently required. However, even if such therapies were available today, it is unlikely they would reach all of those who need it most, due to chronic hepatitis B (CHB) being largely undiagnosed across the globe and to the dire need for health systems promoting access to therapy. Considerable challenges to developing and implementing an effective HBV cure remain. Nonetheless, important advances towards a cure are being made, both in the development of a multitude of new therapeutic agents currently undergoing clinical trials, and through the establishment of a new global initiative dedicated to an HBV cure, ICE-HBV, that is working together with existing organisations to fast-track an HBV cure available to all.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B Surface AntigensHepatitis B virusHumansVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsHepatitis B Surface Antigenschronic HBV diseasecurrent clinical trialsHBV cureICE-HBVpersistencetreatment

Identifiers

PMID30939846
PMCPMC6523454
OpenAlexW2932900696

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