Topic Collection: Focus on Viral Hepatitis
This Topic Collection in Sexually Transmitted Infections focuses on viral hepatitis, with a specific focus on epidemiology, role of sexual transmission, diagnosis and prevention.
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Published Articles
Editorial
Social, clinical and biological barriers to hepatitis B virus suppression with nucleos/tide analogue therapy: who is at risk and what should we do about it? (26 July 2024) Yu Ri Im, Khadija Said Mohammed, Emily Martyn, Sheila Lumley, Joy Ko, Jolynne Mokaya, Stuart Flanagan, Philippa Clare MatthewsOriginal research
Prevalence and viral suppression of hepatitis B virus infection among people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Sierra Leone (24 May 2024) Jin-Wen Song, Sulaiman Lakoh, Si-Yuan Chen, Mohamed Boie Jalloh, Stephen Sevalie, Mamadu Baldeh, Mohamed K Nyambe, Victoria Donicia Nicholas, George Yendewa, Fu-Sheng Wang, Guang Yang HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and opportunities for vaccination against hepatitis A virus, hepatitis B virus and human papillomavirus: an analysis of the Ontario PrEP cohort study (24 June 2024) Matthew W McGarrity, Ryan Lisk, Paul MacPherson, David Knox, Kevin S Woodward, Jeffrey Reinhart, John MacLeod, Isaac I Bogoch, Deanna Clatworthy, Mia J Biondi, Sean T Sullivan, Alan T W Li, Garfield Durrant, Andrew Schonbe, Fanta Ongoiba, Janet Raboud, Ann N Burchell, Darrell H S Tan Seroprevalence of immunity to hepatitis A and hepatitis B among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) attending sexual health clinics in London and Leeds, England, 2017–2018 (26 June 2024) Rachel Roche, Ruth Simmons, Hester Allen, Megan Glancy, Anca-Maria Balan, Maria Bolea, Ross Harris, Monica Desai, Hamish Mohammed, Caroline Sabin, Samreen Ijaz, Sema Mandal Hepatitis C virus infection is uncommon at baseline and during follow-up among individuals using PrEP in the Dutch national PrEP programme between 2019 and 2022 (24 June 2024) Kris Hage, Anders Boyd, Eline L M Op de Coul, Danja Sarink, Elske Hoornenborg, Maria Prins Annual hepatitis C testing and positive tests among gay and bisexual men in Australia from 2016 to 2022: a serial cross-sectional analysis of sentinel surveillance data (20 June 2024) Brendan L Harney, Rachel Sacks-Davis, Michael Traeger, Daniela K van Santen, Anna L Wilkinson, Jason Asselin, Christopher K Fairley, Norm Roth, Mark Bloch, Gail Matthews, Basil Donovan, Rebecca Guy, Margaret E Hellard, Joseph S Doyle Synergistic interaction between pay-it-forward incentives and recreational drug use on hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus testing among men who have sex with men in China (11 June 2024) Wei Ai, Yewei Xie, Haidong Lu, Ting Ai, Dan Wu, Ye Zhang, Gifty Marley, Jason Ong, Joseph D Tucker, Weiming TangReview
Advances in hepatitis delta research: emerging insights and future directions (24 June 2024) Elisabetta Degasperi, Maria Paola Anolli, Pietro LamperticoShort report
Hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing outcomes among service users of Sexual Health London: an online sexually transmitted infection testing service for London residents (24 November 2023) Sara Louise Day, Gemma McDonald, Chris Kellett Awareness of chronic hepatitis B and C in men who have sex with men in Belgium: epidemiological survey and on-site screening (2 July 2024) Marie Coessens, Jeoffrey Schouten, Tom Holvoet, Wim Verlinden STRIKE-HBV: establishing an HBV screening programme in Kilifi, Kenya—challenges, successes and lessons learnt (24 May 2024) Louise O Downs, Oscar Chirro, Mwanakombo Zaharani, Benson Safari, Dorcas Okanda, George Githinji, Monique I Andersson, Rob Newton, Anthony Etyang, Nadia Aliyan, Philippa Clare Matthews Multiple risk factors for persistent HBV viraemia in an adult receiving nucleos/tide analogue therapy (24 June 2024) Sheila Lumley, Maeve Barlow, Khadija Said, Emily Martyn, Elizabeth Waddilove, Marion Delphin, Daisy Jennings, Haiting Chai, Agnes Kemper, Joy Ko, Azim Ansari, Douglas Macdonald, Indrajit Ghosh, Samreen Ijaz, Stuart Flanagan, Philippa Clare MatthewsCase report
Multiple risk factors for persistent HBV viraemia in an adult receiving nucleos/tide analogue therapy (24 June 2024) Sheila Lumley, Maeve Barlow, Khadija Said, Emily Martyn, Elizabeth Waddilove, Marion Delphin, Daisy Jennings, Haiting Chai, Agnes Kemper, Joy Ko, Azim Ansari, Douglas Macdonald, Indrajit Ghosh, Samreen Ijaz, Stuart Flanagan, Philippa Clare MatthewsLetter
Hepatitis screening in a sampling of US emergency departments, 2022–2023 (23 May 2024) Christopher L Bennett, Carson Clay, M Kit Delgado, Janice A Espinola, Carlos A Camargo Jr Hepatitis B surface antibody levels in newly attending men who have sex with men in a sexual health clinic in Brighton, UK (23 May 2024) Timothy Bromley, Colin Fitzpatrick, Keziah Lewis, Deborah Williams, Daniel RichardsonLead Editors
Professor Anna Maria Geretti (Editor-in-Chief)
Professor Geoff Dusheiko (Guest Editor)
Dr Elisabetta De Gasperi (Guest Editor)
Professor Jessica Howell (Guest Editor)
Dr Kevin Martin (Editorial Fellow)
Dr Philippa Matthews (Guest Editor)
Dr Michael Traeger (Editorial Fellow)