Bepirovirsen achieved a functional cure in 19–20% of nucleos(t)ide analogue (NUC)-treated participants in the phase 3 B-Well trials. These trials enrolled patients with baseline quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen (qHBsAg) levels >100&n...
Background: Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss is associated with improved clinical outcomes for individuals with chronic hepatitis B (CHB); however, the effects of varying HBsAg levels on clinical outcomes in diverse cohorts are understudied....
(1) Background: As specialparameters in predicting significant hepatitis activity of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the quantitative standard of HBV DNA has not been agreed and that of hepatitis B su...
A comprehensive characterization of chronic HBV (CHB) patients is required to guide therapeutic decisions. The cumulative impact of classical and novel biomarkers on the clinical categorization of these patients has not been rigorously assessed. We d...
Screening and linkage to care are essential to achieve viral hepatitis elimination before 2030. The accurate identification of endemic areas is important for controlling diseases with geographic aggregation. Viral activity drives prognosis of chronic...
Background: Identification of outcome predictors is one of the unmet needs in chronic HDV infection. Until recently, no reliable quantitative assays for HDV RNA were available. Aims: To evaluate the impact of baseline viremia on natural history of HD...
Globally, an estimated 254 million people are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, yet only 10.5% have been diagnosed, underscoring the urgent need to expand testing to meet the World Health Organization’s HBV elimination targ...
Even though an approved vaccine for hepatitis B virus (HBV) is available and widely used, over 257 million individuals worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who require monitoring of treatment response, viral activity, and disease progr...
The long-term kinetics of quantitative HBsAg levels in HBV-infected patients treated with entecavir or tenofovir, as well as the role of quantitative HBsAg in predicting functional cure (HBsAg loss) and low HBsAg levels (<2 log IU/mL) remain uncle...
In patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) under long-term treatment with nucleso(t)ide analogues (NAs), the loss of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is a rare event. A growing body of evidence supports the use of quantitative HBsAg for the predic...
The hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is a multifunctional glycoprotein composed of large (LHB), middle (MHB), and small (SHB) subunits. HBsAg isoforms have numerous biological functions during HBV infection—from initial and specific viral at...
Background and Objectives: This study aims to estimate the analytical performance of the Sysmex HISCL HBsAg assay and to assess the analytical correlation with the Roche Elecsys HBsAg II quant assay with clinical samples and the WHO International Sta...
Optical fiber based immunosensors are very attractive for biomarker detection. In order to improve the sensor response, we propose a promising strategy which combines porous-layer modification of the fiber surface and streptavidin-biotin-peroxidase n...
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a threat to global public health. Serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) has been used in screening for HBV infection. Quantitative HBsAg assays are useful for monitoring the natural history of...
Background and Aims: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global public health challenge since more than 250 million individuals are affected worldwide. Since different treatment modalities are available and not all patients are candidates...
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) virus infection, causing immune dysfunction and chronic hepatitis, is one of the leading risk factors for hepatocellular cancer. We investigated how Arthrospira affected hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) reduction in CHB p...
21 August 2015
Background: The clinical efficacy of nucleos(t)ide analogues (NAs) combined with interferon (IFN) therapy vs. NAs monotherapy for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) remains inconclusive. The aim of this meta-analysis was to determine whether the NAs plus IFN...
Blood-borne viral infections remain important public health concerns worldwide. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are well-established transfusion-transmissible pathogens, whereas the epidemiological significance of detecting herpes...
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and steatotic liver disease (SLD) are among the most prevalent chronic liver diseases worldwide and increasingly coexist, particularly in regions where hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains endemic. Reported prevalence o...
Background: The hepatitis B core-related antigen (HBcrAg) correlates with HBV DNA in patients with chronic HBV infection without antiviral treatment. Its utility in monitoring patients during and after the cessation of nucleos(t)ide analog (NA) treat...
Immunopathology in hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is driven by innate and adaptive immunity. Whether the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) affects hepatic antiviral signalling was investigated in HBV-transgenic mouse models that either accumulat...
Background: Patients with lymphoma and chronic hepatitis B virus infection need to be treated with both chemotherapy and nucleotide analogue (NA) therapy. However, dynamic changes in HBV DNA loads with increasing chemotherapy cycles are lacking. It i...
The goal of this research was to evaluate the anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) activities of three compounds extracted and purified from Herpetospermum seeds (HS) on HepG2.2.15 cells. Herpetin (HPT), herpetone (HPO), and herpetfluorenone (HPF) were isola...
Background and Objectives: Hepatitis B virus infection remains a major public health concern. The interaction between hepatitis B virus (HBV) hepatitis B virus and the host inflammatory response is an important contributing factor driving liver damag...
Stellaria media (Linn.) Villars is a traditional Chinese medicine that has been used for over 200 years, mainly for the treatment of dermatitis and other skin diseases. It has also been used as an anti-viral agent. All the fresh chickweed juice sampl...
The present-day management of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection relies on constant and appropriate monitoring of viral activity, disease progression and treatment response. Traditional HBV infection biomarkers have many limitations in predicting clin...
In order to improve the bioavailability levels of polyprenols (derived from ginkgo leaves (GBP)) in the human body, a GBP nanoemulsion was prepared, and its antiviral activity was evaluated against influenza A H3N2 and hepatitis B virus in vitro. Met...
HBeAg is a marker of HBV-activity, and HBeAg-loss predicts a favorable clinical outcome. Here, we characterize HBeAg-levels across different phases of HBV infection, their correlation with virological/biochemical markers and the virological response...
Background/Objectives: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains an important occupational concern for healthcare students exposed to blood and body fluids. This study aimed to characterize hepatitis B surface antibody (anti-HBs) concentrations accor...
Background: This case report presents a 12-year-old male with vertically transmitted chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, exhibiting a rare pan-reactive serological profile (concurrent HBsAg, HBsAb, HBeAg, HBeAb, and HBcAb positivity) alongside...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an important global public health issue. The World Health Organization (WHO) 2024 Global Hepatitis Report estimated that the global prevalence of people living with HBV infection is 254 million, with an estimated prevalence...
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Plasmodium falciparum infections remain major public health concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, especially among pregnant women, who are particularly vulnerable due to physiological immunomodulation. While mono-inf...
Over the past decade, the incidence of infectious syphilis has been on the rise in the general Chinese population. Consequently, Treponema Pallidum (TP) testing has been proposed as a surrogate marker for sexually transmitted pathogens and for monito...
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate very low HBV DNA viral load below the limit of quantification and to identify correlational factors in different patient groups, including individuals with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), occult HBV infection (OBI)...
26 July 2019
The origin of the hepatitis B virus is a subject of wide deliberation among researchers. As a result, increasing academic interest has focused on the spread of the virus in different animal species. However, the sources of viral infection for many of...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains a major global health threat because covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) persists in hepatocytes and limits the efficacy of current antiviral therapies. Effective HBV research and drug screening require culture mod...
Background/Objective: Long-term nucleos(t)ide analog (NUC) therapy effectively suppresses hepatitis B virus (HBV) replication, but it rarely achieves a functional cure and typically requires lifelong administration. A major unmet need in chronic hepa...
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a partially reduced metabolite of oxygen that exerts a diverse array of physiological and pathological activities in living organisms. Therefore, the accurate quantitative determination of H2O2 is crucial in clinical diagn...
1 June 2025
Willingness to pay (WTP) measurements often contain a hypothetical bias (HB) when participants’ responses result from ‘fictitious’ survey scenarios rather than actual purchasing behavior or field studies. This discrepancy usually le...
Aim: We aimed to analyze changes in retinal microvascularization with intensive reduction of glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in patients with poorly controlled diabetes using quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) metrics. Meth...
Pre-diabetes and diabetes are strongly associated with periodontal disease (gingivitis and periodontitis), and these conditions are known to upregulate aMMP-8 in inflamed gingiva and oral fluids. Thus, it would be feasible to screen for prediabetes a...
Bone marrow fibrosis (BMF) is manually assessed by reticulin and trichrome stain of bone marrow (BM) biopsy and graded on a semi-quantitative scale. Krebs von den Lungen 6 (KL-6) and Mac-2 binding protein glycosylation isomer (M2BPGi) are known to be...
Objective: To investigate factors influencing the anamnestic immune response 9 years after hepatitis B vaccination in elderly people (aged > 60 years). Methods: We quantitatively tested 630 elderly people who participated in the free hepatitis B v...
This study aims to explore the effect of intermittent sequential pneumatic compression (ISPC) intervention on the coupling relationship between arterial blood pressure (ABP) and changes in oxyhaemoglobin (Δ [O2Hb]). The coupling strength between the...
The purpose of this screening and diagnostic study was to examine the accord among indices of glucose metabolism, including the Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA), HOMA2, Matsuda Index, Quantitative Insulin-sensitivity Check I...
10 January 2025
Context: Diabetes rates are high in Black and some other ethnic communities, often leading to more severe complications. We conducted a study to identify the prevalence and risk of diabetes among African Caribbean Black (ACB) individuals aged 18&ndas...
Oxidative stress would play a role in the pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia (SCA). We tested the impact of common SCA genetic modifiers (alpha-thalassemia, G6PD deficiency, HbF quantitative trait loci; QTL) and pro/antioxidant genes polymorphisms...
Previous studies suggested that dietary polyphenols could reduce the incidence and complications of type-2 diabetes (T2D); although the evidence is still limited and inconsistent. This work analyzes whether changing to a diet with a higher polyphenol...
Background/Objectives: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent endocrine disorder affecting women of reproductive age. It is associated with glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus. The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)...
Background: Metabolic alterations associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV)–hepatitis D virus (HDV) coinfection remain poorly characterized. We investigated metabolic and endocrine profiles in HBV monoinfection and HBV–HDV coinfection, with...
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