Review article: emerging insights into the immunopathology, clinical and therapeutic aspects of hepatitis delta virus

• Published in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics Vol. 55; no. 8; pp. 978 - 993
• Main Authors: Usai, Carla, Gill, Upkar S., Riddell, Anna C., Asselah, Tarik, Kennedy, Patrick T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2022; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Antiviral agents; Antiviral Agents - therapeutic use; Coinfection - drug therapy; fine‐needle aspiration; HDV; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis Delta Virus; Humans; Immune system; Immunosuppressive agents; Infections; intrahepatic compartment; Lipopeptides; Liver; Review; viral hepatitis; Viruses; immune system; viral hepatitis; intrahepatic compartment; fine-needle aspiration; HDV

Summary Background Hepatitis delta virus (HDV), which causes the most severe form of viral hepatitis, is an obligated hepatitis B (HBV) satellite virus that can either infect naïve subjects simultaneously with HBV (co‐infection), or chronically infect HBV carriers (super‐infection). An estimated 12...