{"id":1053136,"date":"2011-08-07T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/neurology\/hepatitis-delta-virus.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:48:24","slug":"hepatitis-delta-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/hepatitis-delta-virus.php","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis delta virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/250\/1358\/1024\/Liver.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" class=\"phostImg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f1a35_Liver.jpg\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(10)61931-9\/abstract?rss=yes\">a recent review in The Lancet<\/a>:<\/p><p>Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a small, defective RNA virus that can infect only individuals who have hepatitis B virus (HBV). More than 15 million people are co-infected worldwide.<\/p><p>There are 8 genotypes of HDV. The hepatitis D virion is composed of a coat of HBV envelope proteins surrounding the nucleocapsid.<\/p><p>The nucleocapsid consists of:<\/p><p>- a single-stranded, circular RNA genome<br>- delta antigen, viral protein<\/p><p>HDV suppresses HBV replication but also causes severe liver disease with rapid progression to cirrhosis and hepatic decompensation (liver failure).<\/p><p>The range of clinical presentation is wide, varying from mild disease to fulminant liver failure.<\/p><p>Treatment of HDV is with pegylated interferon alfa; however, response rates are poor.<\/p><p>Better understanding of the molecular structure of HDV may lead to new therapeutic targets for this most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis.<\/p><p>References:<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(10)61931-9\/abstract?rss=yes\">Hepatitis delta virus<\/a>. Sarah A Hughes MBBCh, Heiner Wedemeyer MD, Dr Phillip M Harrison MD. The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9785, Pages 73 - 85, 2 July 2011.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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More than 15 million people are co-infected worldwide.There are 8 genotypes of HDV. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/hepatitis-delta-virus.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}