Global strategies are required to cure and eliminate HBV infection

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Revill, Peter ^a   Testoni, Barbara ^b   Locarnini, Stephen ^a   Zoulim, Fabien ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN CANCÉROLOGIE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADEFOVIR; ADEFOVIR DIPIVOXIL; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CIRCULAR DNA; COVALENTLY CLOSED CIRCULAR DNA; ENTECAVIR; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS E ANTIGEN; INTERFERON; LAMIVUDINE; LONAFARNIB; MYRCLUDEX B; NVR 3 778; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA; RECOMBINANT ALPHA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 7; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TENOFOVIR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE SILENCING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG DISCOVERY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC;

EID: 84981495379     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2016.7     Document Type: Review

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