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The hidden effects of COVID-19 on HIV services in Zanzibar: country report

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on HIV-related healthcare services. Zanzibar has experienced several interruptions of HIV services in the areas of testing and counselling, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, key population ...
Mansour Maulid Mshenga, Farhat Jowhar Khalid, Shaaban Hassan Haji, Tatu Bilali Ali, Khadija Abbas Mohamed, Damian Jeremia Damian   +5 more
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Hepatitis C and hepatic steatosis [PDF]

QJM, 2010
Hepatic steatosis is commonly seen in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection, and the two together have a greater association than by chance alone. Hepatitis C virus is closely associated with lipid metabolism throughout its lifecycle. Hepatic steatosis is more common in genotype 3 infection, due to direct viral effects including through ...
Simon D. Taylor-Robinson, J.H. Patel, Jeremy F. L. Cobbold, Howard C. Thomas   +3 more
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Significant down-regulation of growth hormone receptor expression revealed as a new unfavorable prognos- tic factor in hepatitis C virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma [PDF]

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2021
Background/Aims Growth hormone (GH) is the main regulator of somatic growth, metabolism, and gender dimorphism in the liver. GH receptor (GHR) signaling in cancer is derived from a large body of evidence, although the GHR signaling pathway involved in ...
Ching-Chih Lin, Ta-Wei Liu, Ming-Lun Yeh, Yi-Shan Tsai, Pei-Chien Tsai, Chung-Feng Huang, Jee-Fu Huang, Wan-Long Chuang, Chia-Yen Dai, Ming-Lung Yu   +9 more
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Risk factors and outcome among a large patient cohort with community-acquired acute hepatitis C in Italy [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of acute hepatitis C has changed during the past decade in Western countries. Acute HCV infection has a high rate of chronicity, but it is unclear when patients with acute infection should be treated.
Ancarani, Fausto, Antonucci, Giorgio, Babudieri, Sergio, Cariti, Giuseppe, Di Marco, Vito, Fabris, Paolo, Ferrari, Carlo, Francavilla, Ruggero, Massari, Marco, Medda, Emanuela, Pastore, Giuseppe, Santantonio, Teresa, Scotto, Gaetano, Stroffolini, Tommaso, Toti, Mario   +14 more
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Automated quality control for a molecular surveillance system

BMC Bioinformatics, 2018
Background Molecular surveillance and outbreak investigation are important for elimination of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States. A web-based system, Global Hepatitis Outbreak and Surveillance Technology (GHOST), has been developed ...
Seth Sims, Atkinson G. Longmire, David S. Campo, Sumathi Ramachandran, Magdalena Medrzycki, Lilia Ganova-Raeva, Yulin Lin, Amanda Sue, Hong Thai, Alexander Zelikovsky, Yury Khudyakov   +10 more
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P-70 HEPATITIS B IMMUNITY AMONG CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE UNDER HEMODIALYSIS

Annals of Hepatology, 2023
Introduction and Objectives: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) has been a cause of acute and chronic hepatitis with progression to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Alanna Calheiros Santos, Juliana Gil Melgaço, Lucas Lima da Silva, Vanessa Duarte da Costa, Juliana Custódio Miguel, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Julia Trece Marques, Giselle Prado do Nascimento, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Livia Melo Villar   +9 more
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Hepatic Venography in Hepatic Tumors

The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1969
In order to establish the diagnosis of hepatic tumors, hepatic venography was performed in 9 cases of primary hepatic tumors and in 17 cases of metastatic hepatic tumors. The deformity of the hepatic veins due to compression by tumors was observed in 42 per cent of the cases.
H. Iida, Takashi Nakamura, Atsushi Onodera, Shozo Nakamura, Tatsuya Aikawa   +4 more
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Hepatitis A: The changing epidemiology of hepatitis A [PDF]

Clinical Liver Disease, 2013
Hepatitis A is a communicable disease of the liver caused by hepatitis A virus (HAV), which is a single-stranded, linear, nonenveloped RNA virus of the Picornaviridae family. The incubation period is 14 to 28 days (up to 50 days). The diagnosis is made with a positive test for immunoglobulin M antibody to hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV), which is ...
Trudy V. Murphy, Noele P. Nelson
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Identification of recent cases of hepatitis C virus infection using physical-chemical properties of hypervariable region 1 and a radial basis function neural network classifier

BMC Genomics, 2017
Background Identification of acute or recent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections is important for detecting outbreaks and devising timely public health interventions for interruption of transmission.
James Lara, Mahder Teka, Yury Khudyakov
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs: a global mapping of service delivery

Harm Reduction Journal, 2023
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for all people at substantial risk of HIV as part of combination prevention.
Graham Shaw, Robin Schaefer, Heather-Marie A Schmidt, Annie Madden, Judy Chang, Antons Mozalevskis, Busisiwe Msimanga-Radebe, Nabeel Mangadan Konath, Annette Verster, Rachel Baggaley, Michelle Rodolph, Virginia Macdonald   +11 more
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