Hepatitis Delta Virus: A Peculiar Virus

The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is distributed worldwide and related to the most severe form of viral hepatitis. HDV is a satellite RNA virus dependent on hepatitis B surface antigens to assemble its envelope and thus form new virions and propagate infection. HDV has a small 1.7 Kb genome making it...

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Autores principales: Alves, Carolina, Branco, Cristina, Cunha, Celso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24198831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/560105
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Cunha, Celso
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description The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is distributed worldwide and related to the most severe form of viral hepatitis. HDV is a satellite RNA virus dependent on hepatitis B surface antigens to assemble its envelope and thus form new virions and propagate infection. HDV has a small 1.7 Kb genome making it the smallest known human virus. This deceivingly simple virus has unique biological features and many aspects of its life cycle remain elusive. The present review endeavors to gather the available information on HDV epidemiology and clinical features as well as HDV biology.
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spelling pubmed-38078342013-11-06 Hepatitis Delta Virus: A Peculiar Virus Alves, Carolina Branco, Cristina Cunha, Celso Adv Virol Review Article The hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is distributed worldwide and related to the most severe form of viral hepatitis. HDV is a satellite RNA virus dependent on hepatitis B surface antigens to assemble its envelope and thus form new virions and propagate infection. HDV has a small 1.7 Kb genome making it the smallest known human virus. This deceivingly simple virus has unique biological features and many aspects of its life cycle remain elusive. The present review endeavors to gather the available information on HDV epidemiology and clinical features as well as HDV biology. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3807834/ /pubmed/24198831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/560105 Text en Copyright © 2013 Carolina Alves et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Hepatitis Delta Virus: A Peculiar Virus
title_fullStr Hepatitis Delta Virus: A Peculiar Virus
title_full_unstemmed Hepatitis Delta Virus: A Peculiar Virus
title_short Hepatitis Delta Virus: A Peculiar Virus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24198831
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