Special Issue "Hepatitis B Virus: New Breakthroughs to Conquer an Ancient Disease"

Viruses. 2023 Oct 30;15(11):2173. doi: 10.3390/v15112173.

Authors

Thomas Tu^{1

2}, Mark W Douglas^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Storr Liver Centre, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
² Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
³ Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.

Abstract

Chronic hepatitis B affects >300 million people worldwide and is a major cause of liver disease, causing ~800,000 deaths each year [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Hepatitis B virus / genetics
Hepatitis B*
Hepatitis B, Chronic*
Humans

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding. TT is supported by the Paul and Valeria Ainsworth Precision Medicine Fellowship.