Changing hepatitis D virus epidemiology in a hepatitis B virus endemic area with a national vaccination program

• Published in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 1870 - 1879
• Main Authors: Lin, Hsi‐Hsun, Lee, Susan Shin‐Jung, Yu, Ming‐Lung, Chang, Ting‐Tsung, Su, Chien‐Wei, Hu, Bor‐Shen, Chen, Yaw‐Sen, Huang, Chun‐Kai, Lai, Chung‐Hsu, Lin, Jiun‐Nong, Wu, Jaw‐Ching
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc 01.06.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Antigens; Coinfection; Confidence intervals; Drug use; Drug Users - statistics & numerical data; Endemic Diseases - prevention & control; Epidemiology; Female; Genotype & phenotype; Hepatitis; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis B - epidemiology; Hepatitis B - prevention & control; Hepatitis B Vaccines; Hepatitis D - epidemiology; Hepatitis delta virus; Hepatitis Delta Virus - genetics; Hepatology; HIV; HIV Infections - virology; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Incidence; Infections; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Mass Vaccination; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Prevalence; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Taiwan - epidemiology; Viremia - epidemiology; Taiwan

The emergence of hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection in the era of widespread HBV vaccination has not been described before. We aimed to investigate the changing epidemiology of HDV infection among high‐ and low‐risk populations after an outbreak of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among i...