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The immune response in chronic HBV infection.

Antonio Bertoletti
Published in: Journal of viral hepatitis (2024)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an ancient virus that has evolved unique strategies to persist as a chronic infection in humans. Here, I summarize the innate and adaptive features of the HBV-host interaction, and I discuss how different profiles of antiviral immunity cannot be predicted only on the basis of virological and clinical parameters.
Keyphrases
  • hepatitis b virus
  • immune response
  • liver failure
  • hiv infected
  • toll like receptor
  • drug induced
  • hiv infected patients