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P-117 LOW PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS B AND C AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL

Annals of Hepatology, 2021
Introduction: Hepatitis B and C infection are responsible for more than 300 million of chronic liver disease patients all over the world. One goal of WHO 2030 agenda is the eradication of hepatitis B and C.
Livia Melo Villar, Aline Borges Cardoso, Juliana Custódio Miguel, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Julia Trece Marques, Giselle Prado do Nascimento, Barbara Vieira do Lago   +6 more
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P-87 HIGH PREVALENCE OF SARS-COV-2 ANTIBODIES IN PREGNANT WOMEN INFECTED WITH VIRAL HEPATITIS IN BRAZIL

Annals of Hepatology, 2021
Introduction: Pregnant women are considered more vulnerable to viral infections, such as severe viral respiratory infections and viral hepatitis. Data about Brazilian pregnant and postpartum women found a case fatality rate of 12.7% among COVID-19 Acute ...
Alanna Calheiros Santos, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Juliana Custódio Miguel, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Laura Cristina Machado Pinto, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Livia Melo Villar   +6 more
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P-98 BIOCHEMICAL MAKERS AMONG CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE PATIENTS ACCORDING COVID-19 INFECTION: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY

Annals of Hepatology, 2021
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread rapidly around the world, posing a major threat to human health and the economy.
Lucas Lima da Silva, Alanna Calheiros Santos, Fabiola Justina Fumero Leon, Vanessa Duarte da Costa, Juliana Custódio Miguel, Julia Trece Marques, Giselle Prado do Nascimento, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Vanessa Salete de Paula, Livia Melo Villar   +10 more
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The Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board (VHPB) supports the continued recommendation for universal hepatitis B vaccination of all newborns within 24 hours of birth [PDF]

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Pierre Van Damme, Greet Hendrickx, Sakshi Jindal, Sara Valckx, Alex Vorsters, Silvia Bino, Paolo Bonanni, Maria Buti, Stéphane Chevaliez, Sandra Dudareva, Angela Domínguez, Ivana Dragojević, Sharon Hutchinson, Wolfgang Jilg, Mark Kane, Mira Kojouharova, Daniel Lavanchy, David FitzSimons, Sema Mandal, Rui Tato Marinho, Mojca Matičič, Vana Papaevangelou, Tatjana Reić, Françoise Roudot-Thoraval, Daniel Shouval, Thomas Vanwolleghem, John W. Ward   +26 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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Cell Culture Systems for Studying Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D Virus Infections

Life, 2023
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV) infections cause liver disease, including hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HBV infection remains a major global health problem.
Grace Sanghee Lee, Michael A. Purdy, Youkyung Choi   +2 more
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Liver in infections: a single-cell and spatial transcriptomics perspective

Journal of Biomedical Science, 2023
The liver is an immune organ that plays a vital role in the detection, capture, and clearance of pathogens and foreign antigens that invade the human body.
Ju Zou, Jie Li, Xiao Zhong, Daolin Tang, Xuegong Fan, Ruochan Chen   +5 more
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Dried blood spot is the feasible matrix for detection of some but not all hepatitis B virus markers of infection

BMC Research Notes, 2022
Objective Use of dried blood spots (DBS) for detection of hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers of infection has the potential to facilitate diagnosis of HBV infection especially in resource-limited countries.
Minami Kikuchi, Patrick Lindstrom, Alexandra Tejada-Strop, Tonya Mixson-Hayden, Saleem Kamili, Motoji Sawabe   +5 more
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Usefulness of automated assays for detecting hepatitis B and C markers in dried blood spot samples

BMC Research Notes, 2019
Objective Dried blood spots (DBSs) can be used as an alternative to serum samples because they are easily collected and can be transported without refrigeration to reference laboratories for diagnosis.
Livia Melo Villar, Helena Medina Cruz, Raissa Martins Deodato, Juliana Custódio Miguel, Elisangela Ferreira da Silva, Geane Lopes Flores, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez   +6 more
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Should patients with abnormal liver function tests in primary care be tested for chronic viral hepatitis: cost minimisation analysis based on a comprehensively tested cohort [PDF]

, 2011
Background Liver function tests (LFTs) are ordered in large numbers in primary care, and the Birmingham and Lambeth Liver Evaluation Testing Strategies (BALLETS) study was set up to assess their usefulness in patients with no pre-existing or self ...
AA Butt, Alan J Girling, B Weber, C Trepo, CS Wang, D Lavanchy, David T Arnold, DJ McLernon, DR Dufour, DS Pratt, DW Hutton, E Castelnuovo, E Tanaka, E Yano, EG Giannini, F Kanwal, FJ de Serres, GA Poland, GJ Dore, GM Pendino, HC Kim, IK Veldhuijzen, J Nakamura, J Thompson Coon, JK Limdi, JV Metcalf, K Stein, K Witte, KJ Petrie, KM Kim, L Olivarez, Louise M Bentham, M Persico, M Weinstein, M Worwood, MW Whitehead, P Sherwood, PM Todd, PT Donnan, R D'Souza, R Hultcrantz, R Jamali, RG Newcombe, Richard J Lilford, RM Theal, Ruth P Jacob, S Bellentani, S Daniel, SN Lu, UL Mathiesen, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Geneva   +52 more
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