T. Jake Liang describes how meeting a patient with fulminant hepatitis led to a collaboration that resulted in the first infectious clone of hepatitis C virus.

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...

In particular, patients who are HBeAg-positive at the time of LT may require higher amounts of HBIg to maintain a given anti-HBs titer in the early post-LT period as compared with HBeAg-negative ...

However, using AChR-Ab titers to predict MG severity and improvement remains ... Exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) concurrent malignancy (except thymoma); (2) severe active hepatitis B or C; (3) ...

Hepatitis and cirrhosis are both diseases that affect the liver. Since hepatitis and cirrhosis are in many ways on a continuum of disease, the symptoms may be very similar. However, there are a ...

tuberculosis and chronic hepatitis [8]. Among the rosacea patients in this study, there were no signs of an underlying neoplastic or infectious disease. In 13 patients with elevated antibodies titers ...

[14] In 1630 persons, anti-HBs titers were ≥10 mIU/mL in 76% at 10 ... none younger than 10 years of age who had received hepatitis B vaccine at birth was HBsAg-positive 10 years after ...

The hepatitis A virus (HAV) antibody (AB) total test identifies both types of antibodies that the body produces in response to HAV infection. A reactive result means the test has detected HAV ...

Some types of liver disease, like hepatitis C, can often be cured. Others, like liver cirrhosis, can’t, but some treatments can slow them down. Untreated liver disease can lead to liver failure ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronic infection represents a significant ... for chronic HBV infection and achieved HBsAg seroconversion with a robust HSsAb titer with ID vaccination after having failed ...

She was discharged from the hospital on the 21st day, when the clinical impression was that she had a hepatocellular type of jaundice due to either infectious hepatitis or leptospirosis.