2.4.1 Hepatitis A virus (infectious hepatitis) Outbreaks of hepatitis A virus (HAV) in colonies of macaques and African green monkeys occur sporadically, usually finding its way into a colony via contaminated feeds or by the fecal-oral route within colonies. HAV is an RNA virus of the gen...
View chapterExplore book Advances in understanding of hepatitis E virus as a food- and waterborne pathogen W.H.M.Van Der Poel,A.Berto, inViruses in Food and Water, 2013 19.1Introduction Hepatitis E virusis a single-strand positive-sense RNA virus, designated as the sole member of the genus...
Hepatitis B carries a substantial risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma in children. In the paediatric population, the main route of acquiring hepatitis B is perinatal transmission from mother to child. Current national guidelines in the Green Book for Immunisations, recommend Hepatitis B ...
A retrospective analysis was performed for the clinical data of 167 previously untreated CHB patients who received ETV or TAF treatment for at least 48 weeks at the outpatient service of Department of Infectious Diseases in The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University from September 2019 to ...
(in green color) PLAD. As showed in Additional file1: Annex 5, the number of treatment before 2020 in the PLADs of class 1, to class 2, to class 3 demonstrate from earlier growth, to later growth, and very late growth, respectively. The outlier PLAD (Guangxi) was always near to 0 ...
By J.B. Handley As most readers of AoA know, the Hep B vaccine was added to the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule in the early 1990s, requires four doses before a child is eighteen months old, and is the only vaccine...
Introduction: Contact tracing for chronic hepatitis B infection is an important activity for preventing the spread of hepatitis B infection. In the UK, the 'Green Book' recommends that all sexual and household contacts of individuals with chronic hepatitis B should be tested and vaccinated if ...
View chapterExplore book A worldwide yearly survey of new data in adverse drug reactions Michelle J. Taylor, ... Justin D. Kreuter, in Side Effects of Drugs Annual, 2015 Cardiovascular A 75-year-old male with history of a dual chamber pacemaker and on rivaroxaban for AFib was admitted for...
The minus DNA strand is drawn as a blue line with its terminal redundancy (r). The polymerase (green oval) is lined to the 5′-end of the minus strand. The plus strand DNA is shown as a red line. The dotted red line represents the variation of the 3′-end of the plus strand...
(green oval) is lined to the 5′-end of the minus strand. The plus strand DNA is shown as a red line. The dotted red line represents the variation of the 3′-end of the plus strand DNA. The 5′-end of the plus strand is bound to its capped RNA primer, depicted as a bla...