New Treatment Found for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus

Contributed by Guest Blogger: S. Bhutani ’14 Chronic Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a common infectious disease. HBV infects hepatocytes, which are liver cells, thereby impairing liver function and leading to disease such as liver cancer. In chronic HBV the responses from the CD8 cytotoxic T-cell and CD4 helper T-cell are not substantial enough because … Continue reading New Treatment Found for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus