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ReviewNature reviews. Disease primers2023

Hepatitis A virus infection.

Pierre Van Damme, Rosa M Pintó, Zongdi Feng, Fuqiang Cui, Angela Gentile, Daniel Shouval

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Review in Nature reviews. Disease primers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Hepatocyte BDNF Acts as a Novel Immune Checkpoint to Restrain TLR4-Mediated Acute Hepatitis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  14. An engineered human hepatitis A virus capable of rapid proliferationJHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Pierre Van DammeCentre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. pierre.vandamme@uantwerpen.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8642-1249
Rosa M PintóDepartment of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1382-6648
Zongdi FengCentre for Vaccines and Immunity, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA.
Fuqiang CuiDepartment of Laboratorial Science and Technology & Vaccine Research Center, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Angela GentileDepartment of Epidemiology, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Daniel ShouvalInstitute of Hepatology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0512-6513

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis A is a vaccine-preventable infection caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). Over 150 million new infections of hepatitis A occur annually. HAV causes an acute inflammatory reaction in the liver that usually resolves spontaneously without chronic sequelae. However, up to 20% of patients experience a prolonged or relapsed course and <1% experience acute liver failure. Host factors, such as immunological status, age, pregnancy and underlying hepatic diseases, can affect the severity of disease. Anti-HAV IgG antibodies produced in response to HAV infection persist for life and protect against re-infection; vaccine-induced antibodies against hepatitis A confer long-term protection. The WHO recommends vaccination for individuals at higher risk of infection and/or severe disease in countries with very low and low hepatitis A virus endemicity, and universal childhood vaccination in intermediate endemicity countries. To date, >25 countries worldwide have implemented such programmes, resulting in a reduction in the incidence of HAV infection. Improving hygiene and sanitation, rapid identification of outbreaks and fast and accurate intervention in outbreak control are essential to reducing HAV transmission.

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Hepatitis AHepatitis A virusFemaleHepatitis A VaccinesHumansPregnancyHepatitis A Vaccines

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.