Hepatitis B Virus

The three-antigen hepatitis B virus vaccine was noninferior to the single-antigen vaccine, according to results from a randomized, double-blind trial of Russian adults.

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America updated its guidance for health care personnel with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV in light of evidence of low transmission and advances in treatments.

Tenofovir alafenamide fumarate prevented mother to child transmission of hepatitis B without any safety concerns, according to study results.

Discontinuation of long-term nucleos(t)ide analogues has the potential to induce durable immune control and functional cure in patients with e antigen-negative, or HBeAG, chronic hepatitis B, according to a presenter at The Digital International Liver Congress.

Hepatocellular carcinoma, the sixth most common cancer, accounts for 90% of primary liver cancers worldwide. Its incidence has tripled since the 1980s.

Concurrent infection with hepatitis C, hepatitis B or HIV is associated with high mortality risk — up to nine times higher among triple-infected patients compared with noninfected patients, a study showed.

In June, HHS and U.S. Public Health Service issued updated guidance on solid organ transplants to increase the number organs available for transplantation.

An HIV outbreak among children in Sindh, Pakistan, was associated with multiple recent injections or infusions, blood transfusion and a higher number of visits to health care facilities, according to results of a case-control study.

Primary care physicians do not realize how low the rate of adult hepatitis B vaccination is in the United States, according to a small survey.

The HHS and the U.S. Public Health Service updated the solid organ transplant guidance to evaluate donors and monitor recipients for HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections, according to a release.