Immunobiology and pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus infection

• Jerry Martin

  Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a non-cytopathic, hepatotropic virus with the potential to trigger a persistent an infection, in the end resulting in cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Over the previous 4 many years, the fundamental ideas of HBV gene expression and replication in addition to the viral and host determinants governing an infection end…