Breakthroughs in hepatitis C research: from discovery to cure

MP Manns, B Maasoumy - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
In the 1970s, an unknown virus was suspected for documented cases of transfusion-
associated hepatitis, a phenomenon called non-A, non-B hepatitis. In 1989, the infectious …

Understanding the hepatitis C virus life cycle paves the way for highly effective therapies

TKH Scheel, CM Rice - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
More than two decades of intense research has provided a detailed understanding of
hepatitis C virus (HCV), which chronically infects 2% of the world's population. This effort has …

The history of hepatitis C virus (HCV): Basic research reveals unique features in phylogeny, evolution and the viral life cycle with new perspectives for epidemic control

J Bukh - Journal of hepatology, 2016 - Elsevier
The discovery of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in 1989 permitted basic research to unravel critical
components of a complex life cycle for this important human pathogen. HCV is a highly …

Hepatitis C virus infection

GM Lauer, BD Walker - New England journal of medicine, 2001 - Mass Medical Soc
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infects an estimated 170 million persons worldwide and thus
represents a viral pandemic, one that is five times as widespread as infection with the …

Replication of subgenomic hepatitis C virus RNAs in a hepatoma cell line

V Lohmann, F Korner, JO Koch, U Herian, L Theilmann… - Science, 1999 - science.org
An estimated 170 million persons worldwide are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), a
major cause of chronic liver disease. Despite increasing knowledge of genome structure …

Production of infectious hepatitis C virus in tissue culture from a cloned viral genome

T Wakita, T Pietschmann, T Kato, T Date, M Miyamoto… - Nature medicine, 2005 - nature.com
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection causes chronic liver diseases and is a global public health
problem. Detailed analyses of HCV have been hampered by the lack of viral culture …

The ins and outs of hepatitis C virus entry and assembly

BD Lindenbach, CM Rice - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Hepatitis C virus, a major human pathogen, produces infectious virus particles with several
unique features, such as an ability to interact with serum lipoproteins, a dizzyingly …

Immunology of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection

B Rehermann, M Nascimbeni - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2005 - nature.com
More than 500 million people worldwide are persistently infected with the hepatitis B virus
(HBV) and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV) and are at risk of developing chronic liver disease …

Robust hepatitis C virus infection in vitro

J Zhong, P Gastaminza, G Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The absence of a robust cell culture model of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has severely
limited analysis of the HCV life cycle and the development of effective antivirals and …

Efficient initiation of HCV RNA replication in cell culture

KJ Blight, AA Kolykhalov, CM Rice - Science, 2000 - science.org
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a global health problem affecting an estimated 170
million individuals worldwide. We report the identification of multiple independent adaptive …