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Promising investigational therapeutic monoclonal antibody to treat chronic hepatitis B and D infections
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Promising investigational therapeutic monoclonal antibody to treat chronic hepatitis B and D infections

by Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung Credit: Journal of Hepatology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.07.003 Affecting hundreds of millions of people, chronic hepatitis B is a widespread global health problem for which there is as yet no cure. In a preclinical study involving the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg University Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the US company Vir...

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New treatment principle for chronic hepatitis B and D infections

A new immunological treatment against hepatitis B and D viruses, both of which can cause liver cancer, shows promising results in animal models. Results from the treatment, which researchers at Karolinska Institutet are developing, have been published in the journal Gut. Chronic infections of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis D virus (HDV) are major...