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Hepatitis Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . November 22nd, 2004

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in Hepatitis Weekly | Other Publications

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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