The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a coated DNA virus that causes hepatitis B infection.
Synonyms
Hepatitis B virus
Detailed description
Hepatitis B is the most common chronic viral infection worldwide. The virus exists in blood and other body fluids. It infects human liver cells and propagates in them.
Professor Stephan Urban and his team developed the first drug for hepatitis D at the Heidelberg University Hospital. So far, there has been no curative treatment – the number of chronically infected
