Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . November 22nd, 2004
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Chronic Hepatitis B - Hepatitis B virus DNA in the liver correlates with extent of liver injury
Diagnostics - A new assay improves the timeliness and sensitivity of hepatitis C detection
Diagnostics - Core antigen assay can't confirm active hepatitis C virus infection
Epidemiology - The minimum spanning tree model tracks the source of hepatitis C outbreaks
Oncology - KL-6 is a serological marker for liver cancer in patients with hepatitis C
Addiction Medicine - Injection drug users often develop hepatitis C virus superinfections
Business Update - Biotech applies for ASE listing, updates status of infectious diseases research
Business Update - Company opens nucleic acid amplification testing laboratory
Cancer Research - Study sheds light on how poxviruses can jump from species to species
Cancer Therapy - Patent granted for production and processing of the reovirus
Chronic Hepatitis B - Biochemical flares arise in patients with hepatitis B virus mutants
Chronic Hepatitis C - Viral load and liver enzyme levels fluctuate in hepatitis C-infected patients
Chronic Liver Disease - Biochemical tests could supplant liver biopsies for diagnosing liver fibrosis
Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Black cohosh may trigger autoimmune hepatitis
Diagnostics - Counting immunoassay detects hepatitis markers in whole-blood samples
Diagnostics - Diagnostic kit maker receives approval to export Vscan test kits from China
Hepatitis - Hepatitis study information presented at conference
Hepatitis - New data on PEG-INTRON presented at conference
Hepatitis A Virus - Ninety-two people infected with hepatitis A in central Romanian
Hepatitis B Virus - Hepatitis B cases down 89% among children, adolescents
Hepatitis C - Application submitted for approval of hepatitis C product in Europe
Hepatitis C Virus - Two hepatitis C studies with PegIntron plus Rebetol therapy initiated
Hepatocellular Carcinoma - Interleukin-12 gene transfer and electrosonporation targets liver cancer
Immunology - Cellular immune responses can develop in humoral non-responders to HBV vaccine
Liver Cancer - Hepatitis B virus infection agitates enzymes involved in liver cancer invasion
Liver Transplantation - Hepatic Na+, K+-ATPase reduced after ischemia-reperfusion
Liver Transplantation - MELD score changes before liver transplantation do not predict mortality
Occupational Health - Asymptomatic polyvinyl chloride workers show signs of liver fibrosis
Oncogenesis - Hepatitis B X protein blocks transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair
Pediatric Hepatitis - Hepatitis B virus type D is implicated in a case of Gianotti-Crosti syndrome
Product Licensing - Nonexclusive HCV license granted to Roche
Proteomics - The membrane anchor domain of hepatitis C virus NS5A has unique functions
Viral Hepatitis - Duck hepatitis B studies explain initiation failure in human hepatitis B
Viral Proliferation - NS1-associated protein 1 enhances hepatitis C virus translation
Virology - Hepatitis C virus variants are adequately represented in amplicons
West Nile Virus - Diagnostics company announces clearance of diagnostic assay for West Nile Virus
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