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Genes (Basel). 2019 Apr 1;10(4). pii: E260. doi: 10.3390/genes10040260.
Meeting the Challenge of Eliminating Chronic Hepatitis B Infection.
Revill PA1,2, Penicaud C3, Brechot C4,5,6, Zoulim F7.
Author information
1
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia. [email protected].
2
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia. [email protected].
3
Directorate, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne 3000, Australia. [email protected].
4
University of South Florida, Tampa, 33612, USA. [email protected].
5
Romark Laboratory, Tampa, 33607, USA. [email protected].
6
Global Virus Network, Baltimore; MD 21201-1009, USA. [email protected].
7
INSERM Unit 1052-Cancer Research Center of Lyon, 69000 Lyon, France. [email protected].
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.
KEYWORDS:
HBV cure; ICE-HBV; chronic HBV disease; current clinical trials; persistence; treatment
PMID:
30939846
DOI:
10.3390/genes10040260 |
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