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Date publication

janvier 2020

Journal

Journal of clinical medicine

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr BAUMERT Thomas , Dr VERRIER Eloi


Tous les auteurs :
Turon-Lagot V, Saviano A, Schuster C, Baumert TF, Verrier ER

Résumé

Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a small satellite virus of hepatitis B virus (HBV) requiring HBV infection to complete its life cycle. It has been recently estimated that 13% of chronic HBV infected patients (60 million) are co-infected with HDV. Chronic hepatitis D is the most severe form of viral hepatitis with the highest risk to develop cirrhosis and liver cancer. Current treatment is based on pegylated-interferon-alpha which rarely controls HDV infection and is complicated by serious side effects. The development of novel antiviral strategies based on host targeting agents has shown promising results in phase I/II clinical trials. This review summarizes HDV molecular virology and physiopathology as well as new therapeutic approaches targeting HDV host factors.

Mots clés

Hepatitis D, antiviral strategy, host factors, liver disease

Référence

J Clin Med. 2020 Jan 14;9(1):