Forty-Five Years after the Discovery of the Hepatitis D Virus: Where Do We Stand?

Viruses. 2021 Mar 26;13(4):555. doi: 10.3390/v13040555.

Authors

Mario Rizzetto¹, Tommaso Stroffolini²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
² Department of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.

Abstract

The discovery of the Australia Antigen in the mid-1960s led, in a few years, to the identification of the virus of Hepatitis B [...].

Publication types

Editorial
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
Hepatitis D / diagnosis*
Hepatitis D / drug therapy
Hepatitis D / history
Hepatitis D / virology*
Hepatitis Delta Virus / genetics
Hepatitis Delta Virus / immunology
Hepatitis Delta Virus / isolation & purification*
History, 20th Century
Humans

Substances

Antiviral Agents