2020/01/01 by Mario Rizzetto · 1 citation
Medicine · #Epidemiology #Hepatitis #Hepatitis B Virus Studies #Hepatitis C virus research #Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology #Hepatitis virus #Medicine #Pathology #Virology
paper · doi:10.15347/wjm/2020.001.2
published in WikiJournal of Medicine 7(1), 1 (WikiJournal User Group)
openalex publication_date 2020/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Hepatitis D is a globally occurring liver disease. It afflicts those who have been infected by both the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and also the Hepatitis D virus (HDV), since HDV needs the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) to replicate. It is therefore most prevalent in countries where HBV infection is also common, currently the Amazon basin and low income regions of Asia and Africa. Improved measures to control HBV in industrialised countries (such as by vaccination) have also reduced the prevalence of HDV, with the main remaining at-risk populations in those countries being injection drug users and immigrants from endemic HDV areas.