HIV testing during pregnancy among women with a recent live birth—Seven US States, 2016–2019 by Ndidi Nwangwu-Ike, Martha Kapaya, Keydra Oladapo, Denise V DAngelo

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Health workers’ perspectives of hepatitis B-related stigma among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in New South Wales, Australia by Elena Cama, Mitch Beadman, Kim Beadman, Max Hopwood, Carla Treloar

“…Health workers perceived that stigma is fuelled by multiple factors, including poor HBV health literacy within the health workforce broadly and among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients, shame about social practices associated with viral hepatitis, and fear of unknown transmission risks and health outcomes. …”
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Training the healthcare workforce: the global experience with telementorship for hepatitis B and hepatitis C by Maria A. Corcorran, Karla Thornton, Bruce Struminger, Philippa Easterbrook, John D. Scott

“…Conclusion The Project ECHO model for telementorship can be successfully implemented across high and low-and-middle-income countries to improve provider knowledge and experience in management of viral hepatitis. There is a tremendous opportunity to further expand upon the existing experience with telementorship to support non-specialist healthcare workers and promote elimination of viral hepatitis.…”
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Clinicopathological Features and Survival of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Ethiopia: A Multicenter Study by Getahun Befirdu Abza, Jemal Hussien Ahmed, Abdu Adem Yesufe, Edom Seife, Mengistu Erkie, Isabel Spriet, Legese Chelkeba, Pieter Annaert

“…Cirrhosis (58%) and viral hepatitis (46.5%) were the main risk factors associated with HCC. …”
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Hepatitis C Virus Prevalence in 50 U.S. States and D.C. by Sex, Birth Cohort, and Race: 2013‐2016 by Heather Bradley, Eric W. Hall, Elizabeth M. Rosenthal, Patrick S. Sullivan, A. Blythe Ryerson, Eli S. Rosenberg

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Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) Infection Among Immunocompromised Individuals: A Brief Narrative Review by Alexandrova R, Tsachev I, Kirov P, Abudalleh A, Hristov H, Zhivkova T, Dyakova L, Baymakova M

“…HEV is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are estimated 20 million HEV infections worldwide every year, leading to estimated 3.3 million symptomatic cases of HEV infection. …”
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Perspectives on the Underlying Etiology of HCC and Its Effects on Treatment Outcomes by Ito T, Nguyen MH

“…NAFLD-related HCC can occur in patients without cirrhosis and is known to have a lower survival rate than viral hepatitis-related HCC. Since there is currently no specific pharmacotherapy effective for NAFLD, lifestyle modification and prevention of complications are important to improve prognosis. …”
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Association of Pre-S/S and Polymerase Mutations with Acute and Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infections in Patients from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Camilla Rodrigues de Almeida Ribeiro, Katrini Guidolini Martinelli, Vinícius da Motta de Mello, Natália Spitz, Oscar Rafael Carmo Araújo, Lia Laura Lewis-Ximenez, Natalia Motta Araujo, Vanessa Salete de Paula

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DURATION OF POSTVACCINAL IMMUNITY AGAINST HEPATITIS B IN HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN ST. PETERSBURG by Z. P. Kalinina, M. G. Dar’ina, K. N. Movchan, O. Yu. Mamicheva, I. B. Gagarkina, T. Ya. Averina, O. A. Balabash, L. I. Yefimova, I. V. Potemkina

“…Study of quantitative characteristics of postvaccinal immunity against viral hepatitis В in 214 health care workers from different institutions of St. …”
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Assessing Liver Fibrosis Using 2D-SWE Liver Ultrasound Elastography and Dynamic Liver Scintigraphy with 99mTc-mebrofenin: A Comparative Prospective Single-Center Study by Donatas Jocius, Donatas Vajauskas, Artūras Samuilis, Kipras Mikelis, Skirmante Jokubauskiene, Kestutis Strupas, Algirdas E. Tamosiunas

“…We report our first prospective single-center study evaluating different imaging modalities that stratify viral hepatitis-associated liver fibrosis in a treatment-naïve patient group. …”
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Exploring lemology teaching with “internet plus” flipped classroom pedagogy by Yu-Xin Cao, Shu-Lin Xia, Zheng-Yun Zhu, Fan-Rong Zeng, Hai-Ning Li, Ting-Ting Zhang, Yong-Juan Liu

“…Abstract Background To investigate the use of flipped classroom pedagogy based on “Internet plus” in teaching viral hepatitis in the lemology course during the COVID-19 epidemic. …”
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Involving hard-to-reach populations is pivotal for the tailoring and implementation of an epidemiological study in cross-border communities of French Guiana and Suriname by Roxane Schaub, Roxane Schaub, M. Sigrid Mac Donald Ottevanger, M. Sigrid Mac Donald Ottevanger, Soeradj Harkisoen, Béatrice Pesna, Celine Duijves, Marieke Heemskerk, Thomas Polime, Edouard Tuaillon, Stephen Vreden, Mathieu Nacher

“…Epidemiological data on viral hepatitis in French Guiana and Suriname are available for urban areas, but not for remote communities. …”
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Procedure for drawing up and keeping a liver transplantation waiting list by M. Sh. Khubutia, O. I. Andreitseva, S. V. Zhuravel, V. A. Gulyaev, A. A. Saliyenko, A. V. Chzhao

“…Prophylactics and treatment of viral hepatitis takes important place in the management of liver transplant recipient pts.…”
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Management of the Immunization among the Population of the Amur Region under Emergency Situation by N. L. Tezikov, O. P. Kurganova, I. I. Pavlova

“…Performance of non-specific prophylaxis in the period of flood relief, in particular mass immunization of the population against viral hepatitis A, typhoid fever, Sonne dysentery and flue, as well as carrying out preventive phage delivery to the most vulnerable strata of the citizenry along with other anti-epidemic and prophylactic activities have made it possible to hold the control over morbidity rate on the long-term average annual levels and avoid aggravation of epidemiological situation in the region.…”
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Hepatitis B Disease Diagnosis Using Rough Set by Tomasz Kanik

“…In order to make efficient data analysis and suggestive predictions in a case of the data of patients suffering from viral hepatitis were used to predict a probability of their death or serious disability. …”
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Epidemiology Pattern, Prevalent Genotype Distribution, Fighting Stigma and Control Options for Hepatitis D in Bulgaria and Other European Countries by Denitsa Todorova Tsaneva-Damyanova, Lora Hristova Georgieva

“…Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a satellite virus that causes the most aggressive form of all viral hepatitis in individuals already infected with HBV (hepatitis B virus). …”
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An Atypical Presentation of Hepatitis E in Pregnancy by Debkalyan Maji, Madhusudan Dey, Monica Saraswat, Manash Biswas

“…Hepatitis E is water born disease and transmitted by feco-oral route and it is an emerging infectious agent causing acute viral hepatitis all over the world. During pregnancy, especially in the third trimester, hepatitis E infection is characterized by a more severe infection with many fold increase in hepatic enzyme levels that sometimes results in fulminant hepatitis leading to increasing maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. …”
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Anthropological perspectives on injections: a review by A.V Reeler

“…Epidemiological research links the large number of unsafe injections to serious bloodborne infections such as viral hepatitis B and C and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). …”
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Fluorescent RT in situ PCR detection of MRP1 mRNA in human HCV infected liver by L Pascolo, S Bogoni, A Spanò, E Demori, A Amoroso, S Crovella

“…Approximately 20% of cases of acute viral hepatitis are due to hepatitis C. Cirrhosis develops in more than 25% of patients with chronic infection and each year hepatocellular carcinoma occurs in 1-3% of patients with cirrhosis due to HCV (Hoofnagle 1999). …”
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SIGNIFICANCE OF IMMUNE MECHANISMS IN PATHOGENESIS OF SOME ACUTE AND CHRONIC VIRAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES by V. A. Ivanis, E. V. Markelova, L. F. Sklyar

“…The influence of immune response to the infectious processes of acute and chronic virus infectious (Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome and Chronic Viral Hepatitis C, as an example) has been revealed. Misbalance of system and local cytokine status characterizes the direct influence of immune system to all organs and systems of human organism. …”
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