List of interesting papers for September

Each month, the VHPB secretariat carries out a search on pubmed for recent papers on viral hepatitis. Based on the abstracts, 20 papers in the field of epidemiology, prevention (including vaccination) and control, risk groups, treatment or cost-effectiveness are selected, that might be of interest for health care professionals and public health policy makers.

Lazarus JV, Sperle I, Maticic M, Wiessing L. A.
BMC infectious diseases 2014;14 Suppl 6:S16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-s6-s16
Spina, A., Eramova, I. and Lazarus, J. V.
BMC infectious diseases 2014;14 Suppl 6:S15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-s6-s15
Maticic M, Videcnik Zorman J, Gregorcic S, Schatz E, Lazarus JV.
BMC infectious diseases 2014;14 Suppl 6:S14. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-14-s6-s14
Nelson NP, Jamieson DJ, Murphy TV.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2014 Sep;3(Suppl 1):S7-S12. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piu064
Keck JW, Bulkow LR, Raczniak GA, Negus SE, Zanis CL, Bruce MG, et al.
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 2014 Sep;21(9):1339-42. doi: 10.1128/cvi.00263-14
Tabatabai J, Wenzel JJ, Soboletzki M, Flux C, Navid MH, Schnitzler P.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology 2014 Sep;61(1):170-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.06.008
Bichoupan K, Dieterich DT, Martel-Laferriere V.
Current HIV/AIDS reports 2014 Sep;11(3):241-9. doi: 10.1007/s11904-014-0217-9
Rosina F, Tosti ME, Borghesio E, Masocco M, Mele A, Coppola C, et al.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver 2014 Sep;46(9):826-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2014.05.014
Boettler, T., Moradpour, D., Thimme, R. and Zoulim, F.
Journal of hepatology 2014 Sep;61(3):696-705. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.05.016
Greenup AJ, Tan PK, Nguyen V, Glass A, Davison S, Chatterjee U, et al.
Journal of hepatology 2014 Sep;61(3):502-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2014.04.038
Predictors associated with treatment initiation and switch in a real-world chronic hepatitis B population from five European countries.
Leblebicioglu H, Arama V, Causse X, Marcellin P, Ozaras R, Postawa-Klozinska B, et al.
Journal of viral hepatitis 2014 Sep;21(9):662-70. DOI: 10.1111/jvh.12202
Miners, A. H., Martin, N. K., Ghosh, A., Hickman, M. and Vickerman, P.
Journal of viral hepatitis 2014 Sep;21(9):616-23. DOI: 10.1111/jvh.12190
Prevalence and titre of antibodies against Hepatitis A virus in HIV-infected men having sex with men in Greece.
Kourkounti S, Paparizos V, Leuow K, Kyriakis K, Antoniou C. ;SD
Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive 2014 Sep 1;22(3):206-12. ISSN: 1124-9390 (Print)
A systematic review of hepatitis E virus infection in children
Verghese, V. P. and Robinson, J. L.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2014 Sep 1;59(5):689-97. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu371
Gaggar, A., Coeshott, C., Apelian, D., Rodell, T., Armstrong, B. R., Shen, G.,et al.
Vaccine 2014 Sep 3;32(39):4925-31.DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.07.027  
Behrendt, P., Steinmann, E., Manns, M. P. and Wedemeyer, H.
Journal of hepatology 2014 Sep 4. doi10.1016/j.jhep.2014.08.047
van der Ree, M. H., van der Meer, A. J., de Bruijne, J., Maan, R., van Vliet, A., Welzel, T. M., Zeuzem, S.,et.al.
Antiviral research 2014 Sep 8;111C:53-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2014.08.015
Estimating the treatment cascade of chronic hepatitis B and C in Greece using a telephone survey
Papatheodoridis, G., Sypsa, V., Kantzanou, M., Nikolakopoulos, I. and Hatzakis, A.
Journal of viral hepatitis 2014 Sep 11. doi: 10.1111/jvh.12314
Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Benova L, Mohamoud YA, Calvert C, Abu-Raddad LJ.
Diseases Society of America 2014 Sep 15;59(6):765-73. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu447
Espul, C., Benedetti, L., Linares, M., Cuello, H. and Rasuli, A.
Journal of viral hepatitis 2014 Sep 29. doi: 10.1111/jvh.12317