Comparative Hepatitis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Weber, Olaf (Editor), Protzer, Ulrike (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.

Acute and chronic hepatitis and hepatitis-related diseases such as liver failure, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are among the most important causes for disabilities and death. Hepatocellular injury is due to a variety of agents including viruses, toxins, radiation, injury and drugs bu...

Table of Contents:

• Hepatitis in the clinics — Treatment options
• Differential diagnosis of human hepatitis
• Comparative pathology
• Hepatitis B virus: Lessons learned from the virus life cycle
• Chronic hepatitis C: Portrait of a silent epidemic and the etiologic agent
• Hepatitis A infection
• Hepatitis E infection
• Bacterial infections of the liver
• Comparative hepatitis: Diseases caused by adult parasites or their distinct life cycle stages
• Autoimmune hepatitis in humans
• Hepatitis in dogs
• Hepatitis in horses
• The woodchuck model of hepadnavirus infection
• Hepadnaviruses have a narrow host range — do they?
• The liver as immune escape site for pathogens
• Drug candidates for the treatment of viral hepatitis.