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SUBMITTER: Ezzikouri S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7349973 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ezzikouri Sayeh S Kayesh Mohammad Enamul Hoque MEH Benjelloun Soumaya S Kohara Michinori M Tsukiyama-Kohara Kyoko K
Vaccines 20200511 2
Despite the availability of an effective preventive vaccine for hepatitis B virus (HBV) for over 38 years, chronic HBV (CHB) infection remains a global health burden with around 257 million patients. The ideal treatment goal for CHB infection would be to achieve complete cure; however, current therapies such as peg-interferon and nucleos(t)ide analogs are unable to achieve the functional cure, the newly set target for HBV chronic infection. Considering the fact functional cure has been accepted ...[more]