H EPATOCELLULAR carcinoma (HCC) is not only the fifth most common cancer in the world, accounting for 5.4% of all human cancer (l), but it is also a disease with increasing prevalence due to the widespread distribution of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, the main causes of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (2,3). HCC is also a tumor with a high mortality rate ...

Exclusion of liver grafts from hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc) positive donors to prevent de novo hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection after liver transplantation is not feasible in areas highly endemic for HBV virus like Taiwan, where approximately 80% of adults are anti-HBc(+). The efficacy of lamivudine monotherapy to prevent de novo HBV infection after living donor liver transplantation (...

The present survey was undertaken to investigate consumers' knowledge of the main foodborne agents and dietary regimen during pregnancy. Data were collected using monthly questionnaires available on IZSalimenTO website between March 2013 and January 2014. Hepatitis A virus questionnaire: 20 respondents (77%) recognized berries as foodstuff linked to the outbreak of hepatitis A. The majority cor...

BACKGROUND Lipid metabolism is one of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) life cycle steps. Statins can reduce cholesterol level and finally can decrease HCV replication. Thus, we assessed the effect of Statins in combination with standard antiviral treatment on hyperlipidemic genotype I HCV infected patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a prospective clinical trial. 40 patients were selecte...

Untreated groundwater is responsible for about half of the waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Human enteric viruses are thought to be leading etiological agents of many of these outbreaks, but there is relatively little information on the types and levels of viruses found in groundwater. To address this problem, monthly samples from 29 groundwater sites were analyzed for 1 year ...

AIM To investigate the prevalence, distribution, and clinical details of paediatric hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the UK and Ireland. METHODS Active monthly surveillance questionnaire study coordinated through the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, to all consultant paediatricians in 1997 and 1998. RESULTS A total of 182 HCV infected children were reported from 54 centres and by p...

Study presented in this paper is focused on comparison and statistical assessment of differences between the selected Level 2 products satellite mission Gravity Recovery Climate Experiment (GRACE). Global monthly gravity field models terms spherical harmonic coefficients produced by three institutes GRACE Science Data System are compared with partially independent MASCON global model. Detailed ...

The article proposes an approach to forecasting mean temperature and total precipitation for the upcoming month, based on study of regularities influence statistical characteristics previous periods them. Among predictors, along with basic characteristics, we use fractality index which is indicator randomness/ determinism climate series. Within framework this approach, have developed models dif...

We propose a log-linear Poisson regression model driven by stationary latent gamma autoregression. This process has negative binomial (NB) marginals to analyze overdispersed count time series data. Estimation and statistical inference are performed using composite (CL) likelihood function. establish theoretical properties of the proposed model, in particular, strong consistency asymptotic norma...