1 00:00:04,471 --> 00:00:08,341 >> WE WELCOME YOU TO ANOTHER 2 00:00:08,408 --> 00:00:11,644 SESSION IN THE 21st YEAR IN A 3 00:00:11,711 --> 00:00:13,213 COURSE CALLED DEMYSTIFYING 4 00:00:13,279 --> 00:00:15,048 MEDICINE HELD AT THE NATIONAL 5 00:00:15,115 --> 00:00:16,216 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH IN 6 00:00:16,282 --> 00:00:22,722 BETHESDA, MARYLAND. 7 00:00:22,789 --> 00:00:25,859 THIS IS BASICALLY A COURSE IN 8 00:00:25,925 --> 00:00:28,728 BRIDGE BUILDING CONNECTING 9 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:31,998 VARIOUS DISCIPLINES WITH THE 10 00:00:32,065 --> 00:00:34,401 IDEA THAT IF PEOPLE COMMUNICATE 11 00:00:34,467 --> 00:00:35,769 WITH ONE ANOTHER INTERESTING 12 00:00:35,835 --> 00:00:41,274 IDEAS, NOVEL IDEAS AND PROGRESS 13 00:00:41,341 --> 00:00:47,046 SMAED -- IS MADE IN CONNECTING 14 00:00:47,113 --> 00:00:48,348 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE WITH DISEASE 15 00:00:48,415 --> 00:00:54,988 AND WITH HUMAN HEALTH. 16 00:00:55,054 --> 00:00:56,890 THE LOGO SHOWN IN THE UPPER 17 00:00:56,956 --> 00:00:58,425 RIGHT IS THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 18 00:00:58,491 --> 00:00:59,993 AND THE INDIVIDUALS ON THE 19 00:01:00,059 --> 00:01:03,229 BRIDGE FOR TODAY'S PURPOSE ARE 20 00:01:03,296 --> 00:01:04,931 DISCUSSING A SORT OF COMBINATION 21 00:01:04,998 --> 00:01:09,502 OF BRIDGES. 22 00:01:09,569 --> 00:01:12,205 ONE IS THE BRIDGE OF 23 00:01:12,272 --> 00:01:12,672 SERENDIPITY. 24 00:01:12,739 --> 00:01:14,207 THE OTHER IS THE BRIDGE OF 25 00:01:14,274 --> 00:01:16,976 ADVANCES IN BASIC VIROLOGY AND 26 00:01:17,043 --> 00:01:23,183 THE THIRD IS ITS APPLICATION 27 00:01:23,249 --> 00:01:30,690 INTO SERIOUS ONGOING LIVER 28 00:01:30,757 --> 00:01:35,962 DISEASE CAUSED BY VIRAL 29 00:01:36,029 --> 00:01:37,096 HEPATITIS. 30 00:01:37,163 --> 00:01:40,400 NOW, AS SHOWN ON THE SLIDE THE 31 00:01:40,467 --> 00:01:43,269 SESSION MEETS FROM JANUARY TO 32 00:01:43,336 --> 00:01:45,638 MID MAY. 33 00:01:45,705 --> 00:01:48,875 THE CODE NUMBER FOR CME IS GIVEN 34 00:01:48,942 --> 00:01:52,445 ON THE SLIDE AND ALSO THE 35 00:01:52,512 --> 00:01:56,182 WEBSITE. 36 00:01:56,249 --> 00:01:58,985 ALL THE PREVIOUS SESSIONS FROM 37 00:01:59,052 --> 00:02:02,255 THE PREVIOUS SESSIONS ARE 38 00:02:02,322 --> 00:02:03,823 ARCHIVED IN THE NIH VIDEO 39 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:06,559 ARCHIVE AND ACCESSIBLE AT ANY 40 00:02:06,626 --> 00:02:06,759 TIME. 41 00:02:06,826 --> 00:02:11,531 THE PURPOSE IS BRIDGING OF SILOS 42 00:02:11,598 --> 00:02:17,170 OF INFORMATION INTO A MORE 43 00:02:17,237 --> 00:02:27,747 COHESIVE COLLABORATIVE ARENA. 44 00:02:28,414 --> 00:02:30,049 THIS IS THE INFORMATION FOR 45 00:02:30,116 --> 00:02:37,156 THOSE WHO ARE APPLYING FOR CME. 46 00:02:37,223 --> 00:02:47,567 THE NUMBER IS 52091. 47 00:02:49,202 --> 00:02:53,072 MY HESITANCE IS AT THIS ANGLE I 48 00:02:53,139 --> 00:03:01,014 CAN'T READ IT EXACTLY. 49 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:02,749 SO, VIRAL HEPATITIS HAS MANY 50 00:03:02,815 --> 00:03:05,151 MANY LANDMARKS AND I'VE JUST 51 00:03:05,218 --> 00:03:15,628 SELECTED A FEW OF THEM. 52 00:03:17,297 --> 00:03:22,602 IT'S IN PART TO SHOW WHAT ROLE 53 00:03:22,669 --> 00:03:23,903 THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF 54 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:25,605 HEALTH HAVE PLAYED IN THE 55 00:03:25,672 --> 00:03:26,773 DISEASE. 56 00:03:26,839 --> 00:03:37,383 IT WAS DESCRIBED BY HIPPOCRATES 57 00:03:38,952 --> 00:03:41,988 AND VIRAL HEPATITIS IS MORE 58 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:45,158 ACUTE DUE TO HEPATITIS A. 59 00:03:45,224 --> 00:03:48,661 IT'S NOT A LETHAL DISEASE YET 60 00:03:48,728 --> 00:03:50,930 ITS ROLE IN HISTORY HAS BEEN 61 00:03:50,997 --> 00:03:51,230 SUBSTANTIAL. 62 00:03:51,297 --> 00:03:58,805 IN THE BATTLES OF THE PAST BOTH 63 00:03:58,871 --> 00:04:03,042 SIDES CONDUCTING WARS HAD VIRAL 64 00:04:03,109 --> 00:04:09,148 HEPATITIS AND AT THE BATTLE MUCH 65 00:04:09,215 --> 00:04:14,187 GETTYSBURG NORTH AND SOUTH SIDE 66 00:04:14,253 --> 00:04:17,857 THAT SUFFERED THIS DISEASE. 67 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:20,927 A REAL INFORMATION AND THE 68 00:04:20,994 --> 00:04:23,496 CONCEPT A VIRUS COULD BE CAUSING 69 00:04:23,563 --> 00:04:26,499 THE DISEASE WAS WRITTEN BY 70 00:04:26,566 --> 00:04:30,770 LARGELY FRENCH CLINICAL 71 00:04:30,837 --> 00:04:31,170 HEPATOLOGISTS. 72 00:04:31,237 --> 00:04:34,874 THE REAL ADVANCE BEGAN IN 1955 73 00:04:34,941 --> 00:04:40,780 WHEN STUDIES WERE CONDUCTED AT 74 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:43,850 WILLOW BROOK, AN INSTITUTIONAL 75 00:04:43,916 --> 00:04:46,386 ESTABLISHMENT ON STATEN ISLAND 76 00:04:46,452 --> 00:04:48,588 AND THERE IT WAS DOCUMENTED 77 00:04:48,655 --> 00:04:51,924 THERE WERE TWO FORMS OF VIRAL 78 00:04:51,991 --> 00:04:54,794 HEPATITIS DEPENDING ON THEIR 79 00:04:54,861 --> 00:04:55,528 INCUBATION PERIOD. 80 00:04:55,595 --> 00:04:57,330 THE SHORT FORM WHICH IS WHAT WAS 81 00:04:57,397 --> 00:04:59,632 PRESENT AT WILLOW BROOK WAS 82 00:04:59,699 --> 00:05:03,002 TRANSMITTED BY A FECAL-ORAL 83 00:05:03,069 --> 00:05:04,604 ROUTE AND THE LONG INCUBATION 84 00:05:04,671 --> 00:05:10,309 FORM WAS TRANSMITTED NOT IN THAT 85 00:05:10,376 --> 00:05:13,613 STUDY BUT OTHERS LARGELY BY 86 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,383 BLOOD AND BLOOD PRODUCTS. 87 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:22,789 IN 1967 THE DISCOVERY OF AN 88 00:05:22,855 --> 00:05:26,626 AUSTRALIAN ANTIGEN HEPATITIS B 89 00:05:26,693 --> 00:05:27,894 OPENED THE FLOODGATES AND 90 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,463 DEFINED THE FIRST DEFINITIVE 91 00:05:30,530 --> 00:05:31,030 HEPATITIS VIRUS. 92 00:05:31,097 --> 00:05:37,036 THAT WAS DONE HERE AT THE 93 00:05:37,103 --> 00:05:47,513 NATIONALS OF HEALTH AND 94 00:05:49,282 --> 00:05:52,418 DR. BLUMBERG RESOURCED A NOBEL 95 00:05:52,485 --> 00:05:54,654 PRIZE AND THERE'S A VACCINE BUT 96 00:05:54,721 --> 00:05:55,254 UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NOT USED 97 00:05:55,321 --> 00:06:00,893 WORLDWIDE FOR OTHER REASONS. 98 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:11,504 IN 1973 HERE AT THE NIH, STEVE 99 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:15,241 FEINSTONE IDENTIFIED SHORT 100 00:06:15,308 --> 00:06:17,143 INCUBATION, HEPATITIS A NOW 101 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:20,012 CALLED INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS, 102 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:22,715 RARELY LETHAL, NON CHRONIC AND 103 00:06:22,782 --> 00:06:28,621 MOST PEOPLE SURVIVE FROM IT. 104 00:06:28,688 --> 00:06:30,490 ALMOST EVERYONE DOES. 105 00:06:30,556 --> 00:06:38,965 IN 1989 HARVEY ALT PREPARED DICT 106 00:06:39,031 --> 00:06:41,634 FROM STUDIES IN THE BLOCK BLOOD 107 00:06:41,701 --> 00:06:46,539 BANK THERE WAS MORE THAN 108 00:06:46,606 --> 00:06:52,245 HEPATITIS A AND IT WAS LABELLED 109 00:06:52,311 --> 00:06:58,417 NON-A AND NON-B AND HEPATITIS C 110 00:06:58,484 --> 00:06:59,619 SAY SERIOUS CHRONIC DISEASE AS 111 00:06:59,685 --> 00:07:00,119 WELL. 112 00:07:00,186 --> 00:07:02,922 IT'S ALSO THE ONLY VIRUS KNOWN 113 00:07:02,989 --> 00:07:05,024 TO MANICURED BY A PHARMACEUTICAL 114 00:07:05,091 --> 00:07:06,993 BUT THERE ARE PROBLEMS THERE 115 00:07:07,059 --> 00:07:07,760 TOO. 116 00:07:07,827 --> 00:07:10,596 SO BOTH HEPATITIS B AND 117 00:07:10,663 --> 00:07:16,169 HEPATITIS C VIRUSES ARE MAJOR 118 00:07:16,235 --> 00:07:18,437 CAUSES OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE 119 00:07:18,504 --> 00:07:20,006 AND CHRONIC LIVER CANCER IS NOW 120 00:07:20,072 --> 00:07:21,174 THE FIFTH MOST COMMON IN THE 121 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,543 UNITED STATES. 122 00:07:23,609 --> 00:07:25,945 AND OF GREAT ADVANCE IS THAT THE 123 00:07:26,012 --> 00:07:36,556 BLOOD BANK WAS RENDERED SAFE BY 124 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:40,693 THE HEPATITIS VIRUS. 125 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,897 THE DAYS OF HEPATITIS AFTER A 126 00:07:44,964 --> 00:07:47,867 TRANSFUSION WERE ODD. 127 00:07:47,934 --> 00:07:49,569 IN THINK ABOUT THIS THERE WERE 128 00:07:49,635 --> 00:07:50,736 SEVERAL THOUGHTS THAT POPPED IN 129 00:07:50,803 --> 00:07:52,839 MY MIND. 130 00:07:52,905 --> 00:07:54,674 WE'LL HEAR SOMETHING ABOUT 131 00:07:54,740 --> 00:07:54,874 TODAY. 132 00:07:54,941 --> 00:07:59,779 CAN THE HEPATITIS VIRUSES MUTATE 133 00:07:59,846 --> 00:08:02,782 LIKE A CORONAVIRUS PRODUCING NEW 134 00:08:02,849 --> 00:08:03,916 INFECTION? 135 00:08:03,983 --> 00:08:06,052 AND HOW DO THESE VIRUSES ENTER A 136 00:08:06,118 --> 00:08:08,221 LIVER CELL? 137 00:08:08,287 --> 00:08:10,056 HOW DO THEY REPLICATE? 138 00:08:10,122 --> 00:08:15,795 HOW DO THEY LEAVE? 139 00:08:15,862 --> 00:08:23,236 ARE THESE POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC 140 00:08:23,302 --> 00:08:31,544 TARGETS FOR THE FUTURE AND HOW 141 00:08:31,611 --> 00:08:33,246 DO OTHER HEPATITIS PRODUCE 142 00:08:33,312 --> 00:08:35,815 CIRRHOSIS AND ARE THERE NO 143 00:08:35,882 --> 00:08:39,352 VACCINES FOR HEPATITIS B AND C 144 00:08:39,418 --> 00:08:41,754 AND WHY ARE THEY STILL RAMPANT 145 00:08:41,821 --> 00:08:43,055 IN THE WORLD DESPITE OUR 146 00:08:43,122 --> 00:08:44,056 THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES? 147 00:08:44,123 --> 00:08:46,659 TODAY WE'LL FOCUS ON THE 148 00:08:46,726 --> 00:08:56,402 QUESTION OF DO WE KNOW THE VIRAL 149 00:08:56,469 --> 00:09:01,073 HEPATIC CONDITIONS AND ARE THERE 150 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:03,843 OTHER HEPATIC HEPATITIS VIRUSES 151 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:09,815 FOR MAN AND THE ANSWER IS YES 152 00:09:09,882 --> 00:09:11,651 THERE'S HEPATITIS D AND E AND 153 00:09:11,717 --> 00:09:14,186 THEY'RE THE SUBJECT OF TODAY'S 154 00:09:14,253 --> 00:09:15,755 DEMYSTIFYING MEDICINE. 155 00:09:15,821 --> 00:09:18,324 SO OUR FIRST SPEAKER WHO WILL 156 00:09:18,391 --> 00:09:22,161 TALK ABOUT HEPATITIS D IS THEO 157 00:09:22,228 --> 00:09:25,865 HELLER IN THE TRANSLATIONAL 158 00:09:25,932 --> 00:09:28,134 HEPATOLOGY SECTION OF THE LIVER 159 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,238 DISEASE BRANCH AND SENIOR 160 00:09:32,305 --> 00:09:33,906 INVESTIGATOR. 161 00:09:33,973 --> 00:09:35,741 HE HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN 162 00:09:35,808 --> 00:09:39,078 CLINICAL RESEARCH, MICROBIOLOGY 163 00:09:39,145 --> 00:09:42,381 AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE, SYSTEMS 164 00:09:42,448 --> 00:09:44,216 OF BIOLOGY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 165 00:09:44,283 --> 00:09:47,453 AND APPLIED BIO CHEMISTRY. 166 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:53,225 THEO GRADUATED FROM MEDICAL 167 00:09:53,292 --> 00:09:56,162 SCHOOL IN SOUTH AFRICA AND DID 168 00:09:56,228 --> 00:09:59,265 HIS RESIDENCY AT GEORGETOWN HERE 169 00:09:59,332 --> 00:10:02,702 IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND A 170 00:10:02,768 --> 00:10:07,273 POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AT THE 171 00:10:07,340 --> 00:10:08,774 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. 172 00:10:08,841 --> 00:10:11,911 A GASTROENTEROLOGY FELLOWSHIP AT 173 00:10:11,978 --> 00:10:14,213 THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AND 174 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:19,285 THEN ANOTHER HEPATOLOGY SPECIFIC 175 00:10:19,352 --> 00:10:24,857 FELLOWSHIP HERE AT NIDDK. 176 00:10:24,924 --> 00:10:32,665 SO OUR SECOND SPEAKER IS MARK 177 00:10:32,732 --> 00:10:38,371 GHANY WHO RECEIVED HIS MEDICAL 178 00:10:38,437 --> 00:10:39,739 DEGREE FROM IRELAND AND MASTER 179 00:10:39,805 --> 00:10:45,111 OF HEALTH SCIENCES AT DUKE 180 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:46,212 UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP AT TULANE 181 00:10:46,278 --> 00:10:50,216 AND THERE HE WAS A CLINICAL 182 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:52,151 INSTRUCTOR THEN CAME TO THE NIH 183 00:10:52,218 --> 00:10:55,021 IN 1996 AS A MEDICAL STAFF 184 00:10:55,087 --> 00:10:56,889 FELLOW AND IS A STAFF CLINICIAN 185 00:10:56,956 --> 00:10:59,291 AT THE PRESENT TIME AND SECTION 186 00:10:59,358 --> 00:11:02,661 CHIEF OF THE CLINICAL HEPATOLOGY 187 00:11:02,728 --> 00:11:04,130 RESEARCH SECTION OF THE LIVER 188 00:11:04,196 --> 00:11:05,164 DISEASE BRANCH HERE IN THE 189 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:12,204 CLINICAL CENTER. 190 00:11:12,271 --> 00:11:14,240 HIS MAIN INTERESTS ARE IN 191 00:11:14,306 --> 00:11:16,776 RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY AND 192 00:11:16,842 --> 00:11:21,914 HE'LL BE DISCUSSING HEPATITIS E. 193 00:11:21,981 --> 00:11:30,122 SO WE URGE YOU TO SUBMIT 194 00:11:30,189 --> 00:11:34,393 QUESTIONS ON YOUR COMPUTER 195 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:35,261 THERE'S AN INDICATION WHERE YOU 196 00:11:35,327 --> 00:11:36,662 CAN SUBMIT IT AND THEY'LL BE 197 00:11:36,729 --> 00:11:37,696 ANSWERED AND DISCUSSED IN A 198 00:11:37,763 --> 00:11:39,532 QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD THAT 199 00:11:39,598 --> 00:11:40,633 WILL FOLLOW THE TWO 200 00:11:40,699 --> 00:11:44,637 PRESENTATIONS. 201 00:11:44,703 --> 00:11:47,306 SO THEO, WOULD YOU BEGIN, 202 00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:57,516 PLEASE. 203 00:12:23,576 --> 00:12:26,612 >> IT'S THE LESS APPRECIATED 204 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,615 THOUGHT OF VIRUS BOTH OF THEM 205 00:12:29,682 --> 00:12:31,750 TODAY, HEPATITIS D AND E AND 206 00:12:31,817 --> 00:12:34,253 WE'LL TRY TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF 207 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:35,287 THE REASONS WHY THIS SHOULDN'T 208 00:12:35,354 --> 00:12:37,256 BE THE CASE. 209 00:12:37,323 --> 00:12:42,128 MY DISCLOSURES I WANT TO 210 00:12:42,194 --> 00:12:46,799 ELIMINATE HEPATITIS D AND 211 00:12:46,866 --> 00:12:51,370 OBSESSED WITH LIVER DISEASE AND 212 00:12:51,437 --> 00:12:55,074 START THE DAY WITH COFFEE AND 213 00:12:55,141 --> 00:12:58,611 HAVE NO FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES 214 00:12:58,677 --> 00:13:02,281 AND WE LOOK TO APPROACH PATIENTS 215 00:13:02,348 --> 00:13:06,685 WITH HEPATITIS D AND THE 216 00:13:06,752 --> 00:13:07,987 UPCOMING RESOLUTION TO CURE 217 00:13:08,053 --> 00:13:08,821 HEPATITIS D. 218 00:13:08,888 --> 00:13:12,358 THERE'S A PARADIGM SHIFT. 219 00:13:12,424 --> 00:13:15,094 WHAT IS HEPATITIS D IT WAS 220 00:13:15,161 --> 00:13:20,332 DISCOVERED BY SERENDIPITY AND IT 221 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:23,802 WAS THE STORY WITH THE BRIDGE 222 00:13:23,869 --> 00:13:27,206 AND IT WAS IN A SEMINOLE PAPER 223 00:13:27,273 --> 00:13:30,309 AND BEFORE TALKING ABOUT 224 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:33,879 HEPATITIS D IT'S ABLE TO SAY 225 00:13:33,946 --> 00:13:36,582 VACCINATION IS AYE THE ULTIMATE 226 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:40,819 CURE BUT IT IS FOR HEPATITIS D. 227 00:13:40,886 --> 00:13:43,155 IF WE COULD VACCINE EVERYONE FOR 228 00:13:43,222 --> 00:13:46,892 HEPATITIS B WE'D BE RID OF B. 229 00:13:46,959 --> 00:13:52,765 WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT HEPATITIS 230 00:13:52,831 --> 00:13:56,068 D, 50% DEVELOP CIRRHOSIS WITH 231 00:13:56,135 --> 00:13:57,436 HEPATITIS D AND THE HIGHER RANGE 232 00:13:57,503 --> 00:14:00,072 OF 20% TO 20 YEARS INCREASED 233 00:14:00,139 --> 00:14:10,583 RISK OF HCC HEPATOCARCINOMA 234 00:14:10,649 --> 00:14:15,854 THREE FOLD HIGHER AND WHY SHOULD 235 00:14:15,921 --> 00:14:18,090 WE CARE? 236 00:14:18,157 --> 00:14:19,825 IF IT'S SUCH A BAD DISEASE AN 237 00:14:19,892 --> 00:14:20,693 NOTHING TO DO WE COULDN'T CARE 238 00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:23,295 BUT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE 239 00:14:23,362 --> 00:14:25,164 THINGS ALL FROM THE CLINICAL 240 00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:28,033 CENTER. 241 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:31,070 THERE WAS A STUDY TREATING 13 242 00:14:31,136 --> 00:14:35,874 PATIENTS AND THREE CONVERTED 243 00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:37,576 WITHIN FIVE YEARS AND AFTER 244 00:14:37,643 --> 00:14:42,448 ALMOST NINE YEAR OF FOLLOW UP 245 00:14:42,514 --> 00:14:45,117 SIX OF SEVEN WERE ALIVE AND 246 00:14:45,184 --> 00:14:46,852 PERHAPS THE FIRST EVIDENCE FOR 247 00:14:46,919 --> 00:14:51,890 RESOLUTION ARE OF SORCIRRHOSIS 248 00:14:51,957 --> 00:14:54,126 SINGLE PATIENT WAS TREATED IN 249 00:14:54,193 --> 00:15:02,334 THE '90s WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS 250 00:15:02,401 --> 00:15:08,307 D AND THIS WAS PUBLISHED AND IN 251 00:15:08,374 --> 00:15:12,444 PANEL A, YOU CAN SEE THE 252 00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:12,978 NODULES. 253 00:15:13,045 --> 00:15:15,447 IN B YOU SEE BRIDGING FIBROSIS 254 00:15:15,514 --> 00:15:16,548 AND GRADUAL RESOLUTION. 255 00:15:16,615 --> 00:15:21,420 SO YOU GET TO D WHICH IS 256 00:15:21,487 --> 00:15:23,922 ESSENTIALLY A NORMAL LIVER 257 00:15:23,989 --> 00:15:24,156 BIOPSY. 258 00:15:24,223 --> 00:15:26,091 THIS GIVES THE IMPORTANT OF WHY 259 00:15:26,158 --> 00:15:27,526 AND FINDING PATIENTS AND 260 00:15:27,593 --> 00:15:31,597 TREATING AND THE FIRST 261 00:15:31,664 --> 00:15:32,197 ILLUSTRATION DOCUMENTED OF 262 00:15:32,264 --> 00:15:37,736 RESOLUTION OF CIRRHOSIS. 263 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:39,571 WHY DO WE TREAT? 264 00:15:39,638 --> 00:15:43,108 THE REAL REASON IS TO TREAT FOR 265 00:15:43,175 --> 00:15:43,309 DEATH. 266 00:15:43,375 --> 00:15:47,012 EVERYTHING ELSE IS A SURROGATE 267 00:15:47,079 --> 00:15:50,549 AND WE LOOK AT CONVERSION AND 268 00:15:50,616 --> 00:15:55,954 HEPATITIS D RNA LOSS AS A 269 00:15:56,021 --> 00:15:57,156 FURTHER EMPHASIS, THREE YEARS 270 00:15:57,222 --> 00:16:01,160 AGO THEY PUBLISHED 25% OF 271 00:16:01,226 --> 00:16:03,896 SURFACE ANTIGEN TRANSPLANT 272 00:16:03,962 --> 00:16:05,197 PATIENTS IN EUROPE WERE 273 00:16:05,264 --> 00:16:07,333 HEPATITIS D POSITIVE MORE THAN 274 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:08,867 FIVE TIMES THE PROPORTION YOU'D 275 00:16:08,934 --> 00:16:09,301 EXPECT. 276 00:16:09,368 --> 00:16:12,137 IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 277 00:16:12,204 --> 00:16:13,572 TEST EVERYONE ONCE AND USE 278 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:24,149 ANTIBODY AND CONFIRM WITH PCR. 279 00:16:24,383 --> 00:16:26,151 LET'S TALK DEEPER BECAUSE THE 280 00:16:26,218 --> 00:16:26,752 EPIDEMIOLOGY WILL INFORM THE 281 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:36,462 WHO. 282 00:16:36,528 --> 00:16:39,031 SHOULD WE COMPARE EVERYBODY TO 283 00:16:39,098 --> 00:16:41,033 HIGH RISK VERSUS LOW RISK AND 284 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,001 VARIABILITY AND THE LACK OF 285 00:16:43,068 --> 00:16:45,604 TESTING AND THIS IS ONE OF MY 286 00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:49,575 FAVORITE PARAGRAPHS IN THE FIELD 287 00:16:49,641 --> 00:16:53,545 WRITTEN BY DR. ROSSETTA DESPITE 288 00:16:53,612 --> 00:16:54,980 THE GLOBAL SURVEYS THE GLOBAL 289 00:16:55,047 --> 00:16:58,650 NUMBER REMAIN UNDEFINED AN 290 00:16:58,717 --> 00:17:01,520 ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 12 MILLION 291 00:17:01,587 --> 00:17:03,622 TO 75 MILLION AN TELLS YOU HOW 292 00:17:03,689 --> 00:17:05,758 LITTLE RIGOR THERE'S BEEN IN THE 293 00:17:05,824 --> 00:17:07,659 FIELD AND THE FIGURES EMPHASIZE 294 00:17:07,726 --> 00:17:09,895 THE REPORTS ON HEPATITIS D AND 295 00:17:09,962 --> 00:17:12,231 LACK OF SUFFICIENT QUALITY DATA 296 00:17:12,297 --> 00:17:14,266 THUS INADEQUATE SCREENING AND 297 00:17:14,333 --> 00:17:16,301 LIMITATIONS AND LACK OF TESTING 298 00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:19,438 HAVE IMPANCTED HOW WE SEE 299 00:17:19,505 --> 00:17:21,140 HEPATITIS D. 300 00:17:21,206 --> 00:17:23,108 THIS IS A MAP SHOWING HOT SPOTS 301 00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:26,545 IN RED, YELLOW INTERMEDIATE AND 302 00:17:26,612 --> 00:17:28,781 GREEN LOW AND BLUE VERY LOW AND 303 00:17:28,847 --> 00:17:30,616 DIFFERENT GENOTYPES. 304 00:17:30,682 --> 00:17:33,152 THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY 305 00:17:33,218 --> 00:17:36,955 DIFFER GLOBALLY AND HAVE 306 00:17:37,022 --> 00:17:39,057 DIFFERENT DETECTION RATES WITH 307 00:17:39,124 --> 00:17:41,326 DIFFERENT ASSAYS AND HOT SPOTS 308 00:17:41,393 --> 00:17:43,162 THINK THE PREVALENCE OF 309 00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:44,296 INCIDENTS OF HEPATITIS D. 310 00:17:44,363 --> 00:17:45,898 THIS IS A STUDY FROM THE 311 00:17:45,964 --> 00:17:46,532 CLINICAL CENTER. 312 00:17:46,598 --> 00:17:49,868 WE LOOKED AT 588 PATIENTS WITH 313 00:17:49,935 --> 00:17:53,238 CLEAR RESPECTIVE FOR HEPATITIS D 314 00:17:53,305 --> 00:17:59,111 AND DID A MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS 315 00:17:59,178 --> 00:18:02,381 AND THERE WERE HEPATITIS D THAT 316 00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:05,050 WAS DOMINANT. 317 00:18:05,117 --> 00:18:05,884 ALT WAS HIGH. 318 00:18:05,951 --> 00:18:08,086 PEOPLE WHO INJECTED DRUGS AND 319 00:18:08,153 --> 00:18:11,356 MOST IMPORTANT TODAY IN EUROPE 320 00:18:11,423 --> 00:18:12,891 AND NORTH AMERICA ENDEMIC 321 00:18:12,958 --> 00:18:13,492 COUNTRY OF ORIGINS THE HOT 322 00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:23,101 SPOTS. 323 00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:25,838 IF YOU'RE SURFACE ANTIGEN 324 00:18:25,904 --> 00:18:29,141 POSITIVE YOU SHOULD BE SCREENED 325 00:18:29,208 --> 00:18:35,347 FOR HEPATITIS D AND/OR HIV. 326 00:18:35,414 --> 00:18:39,952 THE AMERICAN GUIDELINES SAY IF 327 00:18:40,018 --> 00:18:41,320 HEPATITIS B VIRAL LEVELS ARE LOW 328 00:18:41,386 --> 00:18:43,322 OR IF YOU'RE AT RISK FOR 329 00:18:43,388 --> 00:18:45,157 HEPATITIS D AND THERE'S A LONG 330 00:18:45,224 --> 00:18:47,326 LIST OF RISK FACTORS YOU CAN 331 00:18:47,392 --> 00:18:48,994 IMAGINE EVERY PRIMARY CARE GOING 332 00:18:49,061 --> 00:18:59,605 FLEW -- THROUGH WITH PATIENTS IN 333 00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:01,507 THEIR OFFICE WHEN THEY HAVE FIVE 334 00:19:01,573 --> 00:19:02,641 MINUTES WITH THEIR PATIENT. 335 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:04,376 THIS IS WHERE THE FIELD STANDS. 336 00:19:04,443 --> 00:19:06,912 A PATIENT, 49-YEAR-OLD MAN BORN 337 00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:08,046 IN IDAHO, MARRIED WITH TWO 338 00:19:08,113 --> 00:19:09,948 CHILDREN, UPSTANDING CITIZENS 339 00:19:10,015 --> 00:19:12,484 INVOLVED WITH COMMUNITY 340 00:19:12,551 --> 00:19:17,356 ACTIVITIES HAD HIS COLONOSCOPY. 341 00:19:17,422 --> 00:19:22,261 THE GASTROENTEROLOGIST NOTED HIS 342 00:19:22,327 --> 00:19:24,696 LEVELS WERE ELEVATE AND E 343 00:19:24,763 --> 00:19:27,132 ANTIGEN WAS POSITIVE SO HE 344 00:19:27,199 --> 00:19:29,701 TREATED HIM FOR HEPATITIS B BUT 345 00:19:29,768 --> 00:19:40,312 THE PATIENT WENT ON TO DEVELOP 346 00:19:42,714 --> 00:19:43,482 CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA AND ANOTHER 347 00:19:43,549 --> 00:19:45,050 CLINICIAN FOUND HE WAS HEPATITIS 348 00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:47,753 B POSITIVE AND I KNOW WHAT 349 00:19:47,819 --> 00:19:49,721 YOU'RE THINK. 350 00:19:49,788 --> 00:19:52,591 YOU'RE THINK, THAT'S NICE, THEO 351 00:19:52,658 --> 00:19:53,725 BUT IT'S AN ANECDOTE. 352 00:19:53,792 --> 00:19:57,129 IT'S NOT TRUE. 353 00:19:57,195 --> 00:20:02,100 OKAY. 354 00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:04,670 LET'S LOOK AT THE VIRAL B LEVELS 355 00:20:04,736 --> 00:20:10,809 AND WHICH VIRUS WAS DOMINANT AND 356 00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:12,811 IT WAS ALMOST EVENLY SPLIT THE 357 00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:15,514 BETWEEN B AND D AND THEY LOOKED 358 00:20:15,581 --> 00:20:19,051 AT THE DNA LEVELS AND AGAIN IT 359 00:20:19,117 --> 00:20:22,988 WAS NOT THE SORT OF DOMINANCE 360 00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:24,456 YOU WOULD EXPECT. 361 00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:28,393 44% AND 39% WERE NOT HEPATITIS D 362 00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:28,694 DOMINANT. 363 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:33,398 IN TERMS OF DOMINANCE AND 364 00:20:33,465 --> 00:20:36,368 HEPATITIS B DNA LEVELS IS NOT 365 00:20:36,435 --> 00:20:37,502 HOW THE VIRUS BEHAVES HALF THE 366 00:20:37,569 --> 00:20:37,803 TIME. 367 00:20:37,869 --> 00:20:42,808 WHAT ABOUT THE RULES AN 368 00:20:42,874 --> 00:20:47,346 GUIDELINE? 369 00:20:47,412 --> 00:20:50,816 T 370 00:20:50,882 --> 00:20:53,452 TATIANA KUSHNER LOOKED AT THE 371 00:20:53,518 --> 00:20:55,153 SYSTEM WITH PATIENT WERE SIR FAS 372 00:20:55,220 --> 00:21:00,092 B POSITIVE AND FOUND 8.5% WERE 373 00:21:00,158 --> 00:21:00,459 SCREENED. 374 00:21:00,525 --> 00:21:03,962 SHE FOUND OF THOSE SCREENED, 375 00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:05,697 3.4% WERE POSITIVE WHICH ISN'T 376 00:21:05,764 --> 00:21:10,068 WHAT WE'D EXPECT, 2 TO 5% AND OF 377 00:21:10,135 --> 00:21:12,504 THOSE POSITIVE ONLY 8.2% HAD RNA 378 00:21:12,571 --> 00:21:13,005 CHECKED. 379 00:21:13,071 --> 00:21:18,443 EVEN WHEN THEY HAD A POSITIVE 380 00:21:18,510 --> 00:21:22,748 RESPONSE THEY IGNORED IT AND 80% 381 00:21:22,814 --> 00:21:27,185 OF PATIENTS WITH A HIGH RISK 382 00:21:27,252 --> 00:21:30,822 PROFILE WERE NOT TESTED. 383 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:32,858 IT'S 796.25. 384 00:21:32,924 --> 00:21:38,797 I ROUND THE OFF TO 796. 385 00:21:38,864 --> 00:21:41,333 WHAT ABOUT WHEN WE DO FOLLOW THE 386 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:41,667 RULES? 387 00:21:41,733 --> 00:21:45,137 I SHOWED THE DEFINITION BY 388 00:21:45,203 --> 00:21:46,505 FOLLOWING THIS IT'S NOT USEFUL 389 00:21:46,571 --> 00:21:48,473 AND WE DON'T FOLLOW OUR OWN 390 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:50,175 RULES OF HIGH RISK PATIENTS BUT 391 00:21:50,242 --> 00:21:53,478 WHEN FOLLOW THE RULES THIS IS A 392 00:21:53,545 --> 00:21:55,447 FANTASTIC STUDY FROM EUROPE. 393 00:21:55,514 --> 00:22:02,688 PRIOR TO REFLEX TESTING ONLY 394 00:22:02,754 --> 00:22:11,496 7.6% WERE TESTED IN THE POSITIVE 395 00:22:11,563 --> 00:22:13,865 TESTING AND THE AMOUNT OF 396 00:22:13,932 --> 00:22:19,738 POSITIVE QUINTUPLES. 397 00:22:19,805 --> 00:22:23,975 MANY DID NOT HAVE A LONG LIST 398 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:26,178 RISK FACTORS AND THIS IS TEXT 399 00:22:26,244 --> 00:22:28,046 FROM THE VISUAL ABSTRACT. 400 00:22:28,113 --> 00:22:28,847 SCREENING VIRUS FACTORS IS SUB 401 00:22:28,914 --> 00:22:36,254 OPTIMAL. 402 00:22:36,321 --> 00:22:38,490 SO 40% HAVE LEVELS AND DON'T 403 00:22:38,557 --> 00:22:39,691 TEST THOSE WITH DOCUMENTED HIGH 404 00:22:39,758 --> 00:22:41,126 RISK AND 60% HAVE NO RISK 405 00:22:41,193 --> 00:22:43,495 FACTORS. 406 00:22:43,562 --> 00:22:45,630 SO I WANT TO DIGRESS A LITTLE 407 00:22:45,697 --> 00:22:47,099 BIT AND TALK ABOUT THE HEPATITIS 408 00:22:47,165 --> 00:22:52,637 B VACCINATION EFFORT. 409 00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:56,308 IN 1981 IT WAS LICENSED AND 410 00:22:56,374 --> 00:22:59,010 RECOMMENDED FOR HIGH RISK GROUPS 411 00:22:59,077 --> 00:23:01,580 SUCH AS INFANTS WHOSE MOTHERS 412 00:23:01,646 --> 00:23:03,715 WERE POSITIVE AND THINGS LIKE 413 00:23:03,782 --> 00:23:03,915 THAT. 414 00:23:03,982 --> 00:23:05,150 IF YOU LOOK AT THE TIME IT 415 00:23:05,217 --> 00:23:06,752 DIDN'T DO MUCH TO THE INCIDENTS 416 00:23:06,818 --> 00:23:15,193 OF HEPATITIS B. 417 00:23:15,260 --> 00:23:18,964 IN 1991 THEY SAID THIS IS NOT 418 00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:20,499 WORKING LET'S IMMUNIZE EVERYBODY 419 00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:23,335 AND HEPATITIS B WAS VIRTUALLY 420 00:23:23,401 --> 00:23:24,736 ELIMINATED IN CHILDREN LESS THAN 421 00:23:24,803 --> 00:23:27,639 18 YEARS OF AGE AND HPV THE 422 00:23:27,706 --> 00:23:29,641 GUIDELINE SAID LET'S ONLY 423 00:23:29,708 --> 00:23:32,978 VACCINE ADOLESCENT FEMALES? 424 00:23:33,044 --> 00:23:35,847 WELL, WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THE 425 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:39,451 HPV FROM AND WE REALIZED WE'RE 426 00:23:39,518 --> 00:23:41,453 NOT THAT SMART AND WE CAN GO 427 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,455 THROUGH OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. 428 00:23:43,522 --> 00:23:45,991 HISTORY DOESN'T ALWAYS REPEAT. 429 00:23:46,057 --> 00:23:46,792 SOMETIMES IT JUST SCREAMS. 430 00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:48,827 WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO ME AND 431 00:23:48,894 --> 00:23:56,902 FLY WITH THE BIG STICK. 432 00:23:56,968 --> 00:23:58,670 I HAVE TO SUGGEST THE GUIDELINES 433 00:23:58,737 --> 00:23:59,938 ARE NOT APPROPRIATE. 434 00:24:00,005 --> 00:24:02,874 SO WHO SHOULD BE TESTED? 435 00:24:02,941 --> 00:24:04,743 EVERYONE WITH HEPATITIS B 436 00:24:04,810 --> 00:24:07,579 IMAGINE A WORLD WITH NO DELTA 437 00:24:07,646 --> 00:24:08,113 WOULD BE SOMETHING REALLY 438 00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:17,823 DIFFERENT. 439 00:24:17,889 --> 00:24:22,494 A BOOK THE ARTS AND POLITICS OF 440 00:24:22,561 --> 00:24:24,196 YOU CAN'T STUDY OR TREAT 441 00:24:24,262 --> 00:24:25,163 ANYTHING IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW 442 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:32,904 TO MEASURE IT AND MANY KNONO NO 443 00:24:32,971 --> 00:24:37,142 PRIZES HAVE BEEN GIVEN JUST FOR 444 00:24:37,209 --> 00:24:45,150 THE ABILITY TO MEASURE AND GOES 445 00:24:45,217 --> 00:24:55,760 TO UNIVERSAL TESTING AND WE TEST 446 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:02,500 THE DOG AND WE FOUND IT'S 447 00:25:02,567 --> 00:25:04,469 POSITIVE AND YOU THINK FEDERAL 448 00:25:04,536 --> 00:25:09,007 EMPLOYEES SIP ON MINT TEA AND 449 00:25:09,074 --> 00:25:12,310 EAT GODIVA SO ONE DAY WHILE 450 00:25:12,377 --> 00:25:16,147 SITTING AT HOME WE LOOKED AT A 451 00:25:16,214 --> 00:25:19,284 MALE WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN 452 00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:23,421 CHICAGO AND REFERRED FOR 453 00:25:23,488 --> 00:25:24,723 HEPATI 454 00:25:24,789 --> 00:25:30,362 HEPATITIS B AND WAS SURFACE 455 00:25:30,428 --> 00:25:32,364 ANTIGEN POSITIVE AND ANTIBODY 456 00:25:32,430 --> 00:25:34,299 POSITIVE. 457 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:39,037 HE'S MORE TYPICAL AND IT WAS 458 00:25:39,104 --> 00:25:40,572 ANTIGEN NEGATIVE AND LIVER 459 00:25:40,639 --> 00:25:43,174 BIOPSY WAS IMPRESSIVE, 14 OF 18 460 00:25:43,241 --> 00:25:46,011 FOR INFLAMMATORY SCORE AND 3 OF 461 00:25:46,077 --> 00:25:50,815 6 BRIDGING FIBROSIS AND IS A 462 00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:52,617 HEPATIC VENOUS PRESSURE GRADIENT 463 00:25:52,684 --> 00:25:55,053 THE PORTAL PRESSURE SURROGATE 464 00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:59,324 WAS 8 MILL METERS WHICH IS 465 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:00,325 ELEVATED. 466 00:26:00,392 --> 00:26:03,595 NOR THAN 10 TO 12 IS 467 00:26:03,662 --> 00:26:04,329 SIGNIFICANT. 468 00:26:04,396 --> 00:26:05,130 THE FIRST QUESTION THE PATIENT 469 00:26:05,196 --> 00:26:07,599 ASKS IS CAN I GIVE IS TO ANYONE 470 00:26:07,666 --> 00:26:08,233 ELSE. 471 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:13,138 THAT'S HIS FEAR. 472 00:26:13,204 --> 00:26:15,974 WE SHOULDN'T FORGET THE 473 00:26:16,041 --> 00:26:16,274 GUIDELINES. 474 00:26:16,341 --> 00:26:19,377 BLOOD AND BODY FLUIDS. 475 00:26:19,444 --> 00:26:23,615 CO-INFECTION WHERE PATIENTS GET 476 00:26:23,682 --> 00:26:27,719 HEPATITIS B AND D AT THE SAME 477 00:26:27,786 --> 00:26:29,421 TIME AND PEOPLE BECOME CHRONIC 478 00:26:29,487 --> 00:26:32,791 AND PEOPLE GET HEPATITIS B AND 479 00:26:32,857 --> 00:26:35,093 THEN GET B AND 90% BECOME 480 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:40,632 CHRONIC AND THAT'S OFTEN MISSED. 481 00:26:40,699 --> 00:26:44,836 WHAT'S NEXT? 482 00:26:44,903 --> 00:26:48,540 WE NEED TO GO BACK TO BASICS. 483 00:26:48,606 --> 00:26:51,977 HEPATITIS B IS DIFFICULT TO 484 00:26:52,043 --> 00:26:52,277 UNDERSTAND. 485 00:26:52,344 --> 00:26:53,445 1700 NUCLEOTIDES. 486 00:26:53,511 --> 00:26:58,950 THE SMALLEST PATHOGENIC VIRUS IN 487 00:26:59,017 --> 00:26:59,351 HUMANS. 488 00:26:59,417 --> 00:27:01,786 IT'S CLOSED AND BROAD SHAPED AND 489 00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:03,221 SURROUNDED BY HEPATITIS D LARGE 490 00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:07,892 AND SMALL ANTIGEN AND THE ONLY 491 00:27:07,959 --> 00:27:08,727 VIRUS IT CODES FOR. 492 00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:12,731 IT DOESN'T CODE FOR ANYTHING 493 00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:12,931 ELSE. 494 00:27:12,998 --> 00:27:16,568 ANY SELF-RESPECTING VIRUS CODES 495 00:27:16,634 --> 00:27:18,303 FOR POLYMERASE AND ALL IT CODES 496 00:27:18,370 --> 00:27:20,405 FOR IS IT'S OWN CODE PROTEINS 497 00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:23,875 AND ENCASED IN HEPATITIS B 498 00:27:23,942 --> 00:27:25,810 ENVELOPE LIKE THE WOLF IN 499 00:27:25,877 --> 00:27:28,213 SHEEP'S CLOTHING NOTE THAT IT'S 500 00:27:28,279 --> 00:27:32,951 A SHEEP BUT HEPATITIS D IS FAR 501 00:27:33,018 --> 00:27:36,021 WORSE AND INSERTS ITSELF IN THE 502 00:27:36,087 --> 00:27:38,757 HEPATITIS B ENVELOPE AND 503 00:27:38,823 --> 00:27:40,058 WHENEVER I HEAR THIS I ALWAYS 504 00:27:40,125 --> 00:27:45,797 WANT TO KNOW HOW DOES THIS 505 00:27:45,864 --> 00:27:47,065 HAPPEN. 506 00:27:47,132 --> 00:27:50,435 THIS IS THE VIRAL RNA AND A 507 00:27:50,502 --> 00:27:56,241 NUCLEOTIDE AND ADAR1 IS AN 508 00:27:56,307 --> 00:27:58,243 PROTEIN MADE IN RESPONSE TO 509 00:27:58,309 --> 00:28:00,345 INTERFERON AND CAUSES CHAOS 510 00:28:00,412 --> 00:28:03,948 MUTATIONS BUT HERE IT CAUSES A 511 00:28:04,015 --> 00:28:09,821 CHANGE FROM UAG TO A TRYPTOPHAN 512 00:28:09,888 --> 00:28:12,791 AND ALLOWS THE PROTEIN TO BE 513 00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:15,293 EXTENDED BY APPROXIMATELY 17 TO 514 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:19,731 19 AMINO ACIDS DEPENDING ON THE 515 00:28:19,798 --> 00:28:21,166 GENOTYPE AND THAT SITE IS VERY 516 00:28:21,232 --> 00:28:22,734 IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF THERAPY 517 00:28:22,801 --> 00:28:24,969 BUT ALSO IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF 518 00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:26,438 BEING ABLE TO PACKAGE INTO 519 00:28:26,504 --> 00:28:28,239 HEPATITIS B OTHERWISE THE VIRUS 520 00:28:28,306 --> 00:28:30,375 COULDN'T BE PACKAGED. 521 00:28:30,442 --> 00:28:33,144 HOW DID THE VIRUS KNOW TO TAKE 522 00:28:33,211 --> 00:28:43,688 ADVANTAGE OF POLYMERASE AND 523 00:28:47,025 --> 00:28:50,562 REPLICATE IT'S DIABOLICAL. 524 00:28:50,628 --> 00:28:53,565 THE PATIENT IS OTHERWISE 525 00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:53,965 HEALTHY. 526 00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:56,534 SO IDEALLY WE'D LIKE TO TREAT 527 00:28:56,601 --> 00:28:59,404 HIM BUT WITH WHAT THERAPY 528 00:28:59,471 --> 00:29:04,576 >> LET'S GET A LITTLE BIT OF 529 00:29:04,642 --> 00:29:04,809 HISTORY. 530 00:29:04,876 --> 00:29:06,978 AT THE CLINICAL CENTER PATIENTS 531 00:29:07,045 --> 00:29:09,147 TREATED WITH INTERFERON AND THE 532 00:29:09,214 --> 00:29:11,916 FIRST PAPERS THAT CAME OUT IN 533 00:29:11,983 --> 00:29:16,187 1987 AND THIS IS PAGE 291 TO 298 534 00:29:16,254 --> 00:29:19,591 AND 299 TO 303 IN THE FIRST 535 00:29:19,657 --> 00:29:19,858 JOURNAL. 536 00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:23,761 THE FIRST TWO GROUPS WHO 537 00:29:23,828 --> 00:29:26,297 PUBLISHED TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS 538 00:29:26,364 --> 00:29:31,102 D WITH INTERFERON AND I WANT TO 539 00:29:31,169 --> 00:29:34,639 RUN THROUGH SIM KNOLL STUDIES. 540 00:29:34,706 --> 00:29:36,107 INTERFERON WITH AND WITHOUT 541 00:29:36,174 --> 00:29:36,641 HEPATITIS B THERAPIES AN 542 00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:46,885 LONG-TERM. 543 00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:58,730 PATIENTS WERE TREATED WITH A 544 00:29:58,796 --> 00:30:01,966 GIVEN AMOUNT OF UNITS AND THE 545 00:30:02,033 --> 00:30:03,935 VIRAL RNA AND COMPLETE, BOTH 546 00:30:04,002 --> 00:30:04,302 RESPONSES. 547 00:30:04,369 --> 00:30:07,539 AND YOU CAN SEE A CLEAR DOSE 548 00:30:07,605 --> 00:30:12,410 RESPONSE CURVE THERE. 549 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:17,916 50 PERFORMANCE OF THE HIGH DOSE 550 00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:21,753 COMPLETE RESPONSE AND 0% WITH 551 00:30:21,819 --> 00:30:23,421 PLACEBO AND A RELAPSE IS COMMON 552 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:23,955 AFTER TREATMENT HAS BEEN 553 00:30:24,022 --> 00:30:26,558 STOPPED. 554 00:30:26,624 --> 00:30:27,926 LONGER FOLLOW-UP OF 36 OF THE 555 00:30:27,992 --> 00:30:29,961 PREVIOUS PATIENTS SURVIVAL WAS 556 00:30:30,028 --> 00:30:31,029 STATISTICALLY IN FAVOR OF THE 557 00:30:31,095 --> 00:30:33,531 HIGH DOSE VERSUS LOW DOSE AND 558 00:30:33,598 --> 00:30:34,933 HIGH DOSE WAS CONTROLS. 559 00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:37,402 IN FACT MOST CONTROLS HAD DIED. 560 00:30:37,468 --> 00:30:39,103 THAT'S WHY THOSE PATIENTS COULD 561 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:42,707 NOT BE FOLLOWED. 562 00:30:42,774 --> 00:30:46,044 FEW PATIENTS WERE LOST TO FOLLOW 563 00:30:46,110 --> 00:30:52,116 UP AND FOUR WITH CIRRHOSIS 564 00:30:52,183 --> 00:30:53,952 CONFIRM 565 00:30:54,018 --> 00:30:56,254 CONFIRMING WHAT WAS DISCOVERED 566 00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:57,422 IN THE '90s. 567 00:30:57,488 --> 00:30:59,424 THE BOTTOM LINE SIN TERMS OF 568 00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:04,662 WHAT WE USED TO CALL SUSTAINED 569 00:31:04,729 --> 00:31:05,863 VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE AND NOW 570 00:31:05,930 --> 00:31:10,068 DURABLE VIROLOG CAL RESPONSE IS 571 00:31:10,134 --> 00:31:12,337 30% TO 20% WILL RESPOND. 572 00:31:12,403 --> 00:31:14,772 WE CAN DO BETTER. 573 00:31:14,839 --> 00:31:16,574 JUST A REMINDER ABOUT THE 574 00:31:16,641 --> 00:31:18,509 LONG-TERM TREATMENT I SHOWED YOU 575 00:31:18,576 --> 00:31:21,879 IN THE BEGINNING AND WHAT THAT 576 00:31:21,946 --> 00:31:22,747 MEANS, INTERFERON COULD BE 577 00:31:22,814 --> 00:31:25,316 TWEAKED IN DIFFERENT WAYS BUT 578 00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:32,423 AGAIN NOT EVERYONE RESPONDED. 579 00:31:32,490 --> 00:31:34,826 THERE WERE DIFFERENT GENOTYPES. 580 00:31:34,892 --> 00:31:37,395 MANY GENOTYPE 1 WHICH IS MAINLY 581 00:31:37,462 --> 00:31:37,996 THE WEST. 582 00:31:38,062 --> 00:31:40,131 DIFFERENT RNA ASSAYS ARE 583 00:31:40,198 --> 00:31:41,666 DIFFICULT TO COMPARE ACROSS 584 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:44,068 ASSESSES AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE 585 00:31:44,135 --> 00:31:54,612 RELAPSE IS NOT RELAPSE BUT 586 00:31:55,013 --> 00:31:57,782 ININSENSITIVE ASSAY AND THE 587 00:31:57,849 --> 00:31:59,984 DIFFERENT GENOTYPES ARE 5 TO 8 588 00:32:00,051 --> 00:32:02,253 ARE DIFFICULT TO DETECT WITH THE 589 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:03,521 RNA ASSAYS. 590 00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:06,824 PATIENTS SHOULD BE SCREENED AND 591 00:32:06,891 --> 00:32:08,526 THEY SHOULD BE WARNED THERE'S NO 592 00:32:08,593 --> 00:32:10,461 VACCINE AND THEY'RE VULNERABLE 593 00:32:10,528 --> 00:32:13,665 TO SUPER INFECTION. 594 00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:16,501 WHAT ABOUT ANTI-HEPATITIS B 595 00:32:16,567 --> 00:32:16,701 STUDY? 596 00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:18,102 THE FIRST WAS DONE AT HERE AT 597 00:32:18,169 --> 00:32:20,171 THE CLINICAL CENTER. 598 00:32:20,238 --> 00:32:21,139 OTHERS INCLUDING IN THE NEW 599 00:32:21,205 --> 00:32:22,473 ENGLAND JOURNAL SO IT MUST BE 600 00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:22,807 TRUE. 601 00:32:22,874 --> 00:32:25,176 ALL OF THEM SHOWED TREATING 602 00:32:25,243 --> 00:32:28,046 HEPATITIS B ALONE DOESN'T WORK. 603 00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:30,581 WHAT ABOUT TREATMENT GUIDELINES? 604 00:32:30,648 --> 00:32:32,884 THERE'S NO CURRENT FDA APPROVED 605 00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:35,987 THERAPY FOR HEPATITIS D. 606 00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:37,689 AND THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 607 00:32:37,755 --> 00:32:40,825 THE STUDY OF LOWER DISEASE SAID 608 00:32:40,892 --> 00:32:44,529 A LOW DOSE OF INTERFERON IS 609 00:32:44,595 --> 00:32:47,498 RECOMMENDED FOR IS IT MONTHS AND 610 00:32:47,565 --> 00:32:49,233 IF HEPATITIS B LEVELS ARE 611 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:54,238 INCREASED TREATMENT SHOULD BE 612 00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:56,441 PERFOR 613 00:32:56,507 --> 00:33:01,145 PERFORMED WE TREAT EVEN WHEN 614 00:33:01,212 --> 00:33:03,481 LEVELS ARE NOT INCREASED AND 615 00:33:03,548 --> 00:33:06,818 GIVEN THE EFFICACY OF CURRENT 616 00:33:06,884 --> 00:33:07,885 THERAPIES IT'S REASONABLE TO 617 00:33:07,952 --> 00:33:09,153 REFER FOR STUDIES AND 618 00:33:09,220 --> 00:33:11,255 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES. 619 00:33:11,322 --> 00:33:13,424 ALL THE STUDIES, ALL THE DRUGS 620 00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:16,394 I'M GOING DISCUSS HAVE BEEN A 621 00:33:16,461 --> 00:33:18,196 TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE. 622 00:33:18,262 --> 00:33:21,232 REALLY AND TRULY NOT POSSIBLE 623 00:33:21,299 --> 00:33:23,835 WITHOUT A DEEP INFORMATION OF 624 00:33:23,901 --> 00:33:27,205 BASIC SCIENCE AND BIOLOGY AND 625 00:33:27,271 --> 00:33:30,241 THOSE OF US ON THE CLINICAL SIDE 626 00:33:30,308 --> 00:33:33,444 ARE DISMISSIVE OF THE BASIC 627 00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:34,412 SCIENTISTS. 628 00:33:34,479 --> 00:33:37,749 THAT'S A REAL MISTAKE BECAUSE 629 00:33:37,815 --> 00:33:38,783 NONE OF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE 630 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:40,151 WITHOUT THE BASIC SCIENCE AND IT 631 00:33:40,218 --> 00:33:42,153 MAY TAKE A WHILE FOR THE 632 00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:44,622 EVIDENCE TO BECOME CLEAR BUT 633 00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:47,425 EVENTU 634 00:33:47,492 --> 00:33:47,792 EVENTUALLY. 635 00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:50,528 EEL TALK ABOUT A COUPLE 636 00:33:50,595 --> 00:33:54,031 THERAPIES AND NUCLEIC ACID 637 00:33:54,098 --> 00:33:54,665 POLYMERS AND THERE ARE OTHERS 638 00:33:54,732 --> 00:34:01,139 BUT THESE ARE FURTHEST ALONG. 639 00:34:01,205 --> 00:34:06,310 IS MUCH OF THE DATA I'LL PRESENT 640 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:12,850 IS IN ABSTRACT FORM AND I'LL 641 00:34:12,917 --> 00:34:14,419 FOCUS ON THE HIGHLIGHTS AND 642 00:34:14,485 --> 00:34:15,987 BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE 643 00:34:16,053 --> 00:34:18,122 STUDIES FOCUS HAS BEEN ON 644 00:34:18,189 --> 00:34:19,957 SURROGATES AND REMEMBER THE REAL 645 00:34:20,024 --> 00:34:21,058 END POINT IS DEATH. 646 00:34:21,125 --> 00:34:24,395 THEN THE SURROGATE FOR DEATH 647 00:34:24,462 --> 00:34:26,497 WOULD BE HCG CIRRHOSIS AND THE 648 00:34:26,564 --> 00:34:27,932 SURROGATE WOULD BE ELIMINATING 649 00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:33,805 THE VIRUS AND AS A SURROGATE FOR 650 00:34:33,871 --> 00:34:39,744 THAT, WE USE THE 2 LOG DECLINE 651 00:34:39,811 --> 00:34:44,949 OF HDV AND WHAT ARE DURABLE VIR 652 00:34:45,016 --> 00:34:45,616 LOGIC RESPONSE AND WHEN YOU USE 653 00:34:45,683 --> 00:34:51,055 THE SUR GALT OF A SURROGATE YOU 654 00:34:51,122 --> 00:34:56,828 GET INTO TROUBLE AND -- A LARGE 655 00:34:56,894 --> 00:34:58,896 STUDY WAS STOPPED BECAUSE OF 656 00:34:58,963 --> 00:35:00,198 ADVERSE OUTCOMES. 657 00:35:00,264 --> 00:35:01,332 IT'S NOT CLEAR WHETHER IT WILL 658 00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:03,434 COME BACK OR NOT BUT I'D LIKE TO 659 00:35:03,501 --> 00:35:05,136 STILL GO THROUGH IT BECAUSE IT'S 660 00:35:05,203 --> 00:35:07,738 IMPORTANT. 661 00:35:07,805 --> 00:35:17,949 IT'S A TYPE 3 INTERFERON IT HAS 662 00:35:18,015 --> 00:35:19,383 LESS THOUGHT EFFECTS BECAUSE OF 663 00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:23,421 A GREATER HEPATIC RESTRICTION. 664 00:35:23,488 --> 00:35:33,364 AND THE ONE STUDY FOR HEPATITIS 665 00:35:33,431 --> 00:35:41,405 B WAS A STUDY WITH LAMDA AND 36% 666 00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:43,708 OF PATIENTS HAD CLEARED RNA AND 667 00:35:43,774 --> 00:35:51,415 NORMAL ALT AND THE CURVE SHOWS 668 00:35:51,482 --> 00:35:55,553 THE RESPONSE DIFFERENCES. 669 00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:57,021 WHAT ABOUT INHIBITORS. 670 00:35:57,088 --> 00:36:00,091 THESE ARE LIKELY TO BE THE FIRST 671 00:36:00,157 --> 00:36:03,628 DRUGS APPROVED FOR HEPATITIS B 672 00:36:03,694 --> 00:36:05,129 IN THE UNITED STATES. 673 00:36:05,196 --> 00:36:07,365 THE TRANSPORTER PEPTIDE THE 674 00:36:07,431 --> 00:36:13,271 SYSTEM IS THE RECEPTOR FOR 675 00:36:13,337 --> 00:36:16,574 HEPATITIS B AND IT'S POSSIBLE TO 676 00:36:16,641 --> 00:36:19,710 BLOCK THAT AND BLOCK IT FROM 677 00:36:19,777 --> 00:36:23,414 GOING INTO CELLS THUS BLOCKING 678 00:36:23,481 --> 00:36:26,217 HEPATITIS D AND SHOWED 679 00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:28,786 INHIBITION OF HEPATITIS B AND D 680 00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:28,986 ENTRY. 681 00:36:29,053 --> 00:36:34,091 I'LL SHOW THE NEW ENGLAND STUDY 682 00:36:34,158 --> 00:36:40,865 FROM LAST YEAR. 683 00:36:40,932 --> 00:36:42,900 IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP CURVE 684 00:36:42,967 --> 00:36:45,169 PLACEBO SHOWED NO DECREASE IN 685 00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:48,706 VIRAL LEVEL AND THE 2 AND 10 MIL 686 00:36:48,773 --> 00:36:53,177 GRAM DOSES HAD 2.5 AND 1.9 687 00:36:53,244 --> 00:37:03,354 LEVEL. 688 00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:05,222 SOME OF PATIENTS STOP CLEAR BUT 689 00:37:05,289 --> 00:37:06,490 FOR THE MAJORITY IT'S NOT THE 690 00:37:06,557 --> 00:37:09,460 CASE AND IF YOU LOOK AT 691 00:37:09,527 --> 00:37:11,195 NORMALIZATION OF ALT IT'S JUST 692 00:37:11,262 --> 00:37:20,605 ABOVE 50% FOR BOTH DOSES. 693 00:37:20,671 --> 00:37:23,574 THIS IS VERY EXCITING AND WE 694 00:37:23,641 --> 00:37:27,712 HAVE ACTIVITIES ACROSS AN ARRAY 695 00:37:27,778 --> 00:37:30,815 OF AGENTS AND MECHANISMS ARE NOT 696 00:37:30,881 --> 00:37:32,016 COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD. 697 00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:35,419 I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ONE STUDY 698 00:37:35,486 --> 00:37:38,856 PUBLISHED SEVEN YEARS AGO USING 699 00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:45,029 REP 2 39 IN IT'S A COMPLICATED 700 00:37:45,096 --> 00:37:47,198 DOSING. 701 00:37:47,264 --> 00:37:50,835 500 MILLIGRAM FOR 15 WEEKS AND 702 00:37:50,901 --> 00:37:54,305 PEG INTERFERON FOR 33 WEEKS AND 703 00:37:54,372 --> 00:38:02,847 THE MEAN DECLINE WAS 5.34 BLOGS 704 00:38:02,913 --> 00:38:04,081 AND SOME WERE HEPATITIS B 705 00:38:04,148 --> 00:38:06,183 NEGATIVE AND SURFACE ANTIGEN 706 00:38:06,250 --> 00:38:06,450 NEGATIVE. 707 00:38:06,517 --> 00:38:11,322 AT ONE YEAR 58% WERE HEPATITIS D 708 00:38:11,389 --> 00:38:17,161 RNA NEGATIVE AND AT 3 1/2 YEARS 709 00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:19,463 7 OF 12 WERE NEGATIVE AND WE'RE 710 00:38:19,530 --> 00:38:21,432 WAITING FOR OTHER STUDIES BUT 711 00:38:21,499 --> 00:38:24,001 THIS WOULD ALSO BE EXCITING. 712 00:38:24,068 --> 00:38:28,005 I MENTIONED WHEN THE PROTEIN 713 00:38:28,072 --> 00:38:29,840 GETS EXTENDED FROM SMALL TO 714 00:38:29,907 --> 00:38:33,844 LARGE ANTIGEN IT HAS A SITE AND 715 00:38:33,911 --> 00:38:40,451 THE INHIBITORS DEVELOP FOR RAS 716 00:38:40,518 --> 00:38:42,219 ONCA GENES AND ADAPTED AND 717 00:38:42,286 --> 00:38:52,763 THERE'S A PAPER FOR RSV AND 718 00:38:57,301 --> 00:38:58,969 THERE'S LIPIDS TO PROTEINS AND 719 00:38:59,036 --> 00:39:05,710 THIS PROMOTES MEMBRANE IN TO 720 00:39:05,776 --> 00:39:10,081 INTERACTIONS AND FOR MULTIPLE 721 00:39:10,147 --> 00:39:20,858 CELLULAR PROTEINS INSERTING 722 00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:26,430 THEMSELVES TO HEPATITIS B AND 723 00:39:26,497 --> 00:39:28,432 THEY AVOID THE G.I. SIDE EFFECTS 724 00:39:28,499 --> 00:39:31,669 OF GIVING A HIGH DOSE OF 725 00:39:31,736 --> 00:39:33,604 RITONAVIR AND IF YOU LOOK AT 726 00:39:33,671 --> 00:39:36,807 THIS, 11 OF 22 PATIENTS AT 24 727 00:39:36,874 --> 00:39:41,679 WEEKS WERE UNDETECTABLE ABOVE 728 00:39:41,746 --> 00:39:43,314 LIMITATION FOR HEPATITIS D RNA 729 00:39:43,380 --> 00:39:45,616 AND SIX WERE MORE THAN A TWO LOG 730 00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:51,288 DECLINE A SURROGATE ACCEPTED 731 00:39:51,355 --> 00:39:55,126 MARKER FOR THE PAPER AND LESS 732 00:39:55,192 --> 00:39:57,428 THAN FIVE HAD A TWO-LOG DECLINE. 733 00:39:57,495 --> 00:39:58,162 THIS IS ALSO PROMISING AND 734 00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:08,105 EXCITING. 735 00:40:08,172 --> 00:40:11,509 THE LIGANDS AND LOTS OF OTHER 736 00:40:11,575 --> 00:40:12,176 SILENCING RNAs AND OTHER THINGS 737 00:40:12,243 --> 00:40:22,386 COMING. 738 00:40:25,723 --> 00:40:29,126 AND THE RNA DE KWLIEND BUT DID 739 00:40:29,193 --> 00:40:29,727 NOT BECOME UNDETECTABLE AND 740 00:40:29,794 --> 00:40:31,529 IMPROVED AND THERAPY AND ALL 741 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:32,263 RETURNED TO BASELINE AFTER THE 742 00:40:32,329 --> 00:40:32,963 CONTINUING THERAPY. 743 00:40:33,030 --> 00:40:38,068 THIS IS A TYPICAL STORY. 744 00:40:38,135 --> 00:40:40,404 THE PATIENT SIT IN YOUR OFFICE 745 00:40:40,471 --> 00:40:50,915 AND SAYS NOW WHAT, DOCTOR? 746 00:40:54,852 --> 00:40:57,021 AND HE BECAME NEGATIVE BUT 747 00:40:57,087 --> 00:40:58,289 RELAPSED AFTER TREATMENT. 748 00:40:58,355 --> 00:41:08,866 THEN HE SAYS, WHAT'S NEXT NOW? 749 00:41:13,204 --> 00:41:17,641 CLINICAL TRIAL.gov THERE'S ABOUT 750 00:41:17,708 --> 00:41:19,043 61 STUDIES NOW. 751 00:41:19,109 --> 00:41:21,779 NOT ALL ARE ACTIVE, SOME ARE 752 00:41:21,846 --> 00:41:22,446 COMPLETED. 753 00:41:22,513 --> 00:41:24,615 NOT ALL ARE REALLY THERAPEUTIC 754 00:41:24,682 --> 00:41:27,985 BUT THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE IN 755 00:41:28,052 --> 00:41:29,420 JUST A FEW YEARS. 756 00:41:29,486 --> 00:41:33,958 SO HEPATITIS D IS FASCINATING. 757 00:41:34,024 --> 00:41:36,126 NEARLY 50 YEARS LATER WE'RE 758 00:41:36,193 --> 00:41:39,263 STILL STRUGGLING. 759 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:41,098 PEGINTERFERON IS LIKELY TO 760 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:45,936 BECOME A COMPONENT FOR A WHILE 761 00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:48,505 EVEN WITH THE INTENT TO GIVE 762 00:41:48,572 --> 00:41:55,045 WITH INTERFERON AND WE FLARES 763 00:41:55,112 --> 00:41:56,614 NOT OUTCOMES AND LOOK AT 764 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,884 PROGRESS AND HERE I HAVE TO 765 00:41:59,950 --> 00:42:02,119 MENTION ALSO MATHEMATICAL MODEL 766 00:42:02,186 --> 00:42:04,288 AND WE LOOKED AT LOYOLA AND 767 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:05,856 THAT'S GUIDED THE APPROACH TO 768 00:42:05,923 --> 00:42:07,992 HOW WE TREAT PATIENTS. 769 00:42:08,058 --> 00:42:13,731 AND THESE NOVEL THERAPIES HOLD 770 00:42:13,797 --> 00:42:20,337 REAL PROMISE. 771 00:42:20,404 --> 00:42:24,975 YOU'LL SEE THIS PAINTING IN THE 772 00:42:25,042 --> 00:42:26,777 BACK WALL WALKING FROM THE BACK 773 00:42:26,844 --> 00:42:29,413 NOT WHERE THE PATIENTS COME IN. 774 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,915 THIS IS A PAINTING HUNG IN THE 775 00:42:30,981 --> 00:42:38,122 CLINIC A PATIENT GAVE HIM. 776 00:42:38,188 --> 00:42:39,690 I WANT YOU TO STOP FOR A SECOND 777 00:42:39,757 --> 00:42:50,301 AN THINK HOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL. 778 00:43:16,927 --> 00:43:18,662 YOU MAY ASK WHY WOULD YOU HANG 779 00:43:18,729 --> 00:43:20,197 SINCE A CLINIC. 780 00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:21,932 IT'S SUCH A DE PRESSING THING. 781 00:43:21,999 --> 00:43:25,636 THE ANSWER IS IT'S NOT DEPR 782 00:43:25,703 --> 00:43:27,604 DEPRESSING IT'S INSPIRING. 783 00:43:27,671 --> 00:43:30,474 OUR FAILURES SHOULD CHALLENGE US 784 00:43:30,541 --> 00:43:31,742 TO DO BETTER. 785 00:43:31,809 --> 00:43:35,212 THERE'S NO DISHONORING FAILURE 786 00:43:35,279 --> 00:43:38,015 BUT IN TRYING AND WE'RE HERE TO 787 00:43:38,082 --> 00:43:40,117 MAKE THE WORLD BETTER AND TO TRY 788 00:43:40,184 --> 00:43:42,286 TO DO THAT AND FOR ME WHEN I 789 00:43:42,353 --> 00:43:43,721 WALK THE PAINTING INTO CLINIC 790 00:43:43,787 --> 00:43:45,923 IT'S AN INSPIRATION TO STRIVE TO 791 00:43:45,990 --> 00:43:47,224 DO BETTER AND THINK BETTER AND 792 00:43:47,291 --> 00:43:47,925 TRY HARDER. 793 00:43:47,992 --> 00:43:50,928 I THINK THIS IS VERY FITTING AND 794 00:43:50,995 --> 00:43:56,200 VERY APPROPRIATE AND BASED ON 795 00:43:56,266 --> 00:43:58,168 THIS, IT'S INCREDIBLE TO STAND 796 00:43:58,235 --> 00:43:59,069 HERE 40 YEARS LATER AND TALK 797 00:43:59,136 --> 00:44:01,038 ABOUT A REVOLUTION IN THERAPY. 798 00:44:01,105 --> 00:44:04,441 I WANT TO THANK THE PATIENTS WHO 799 00:44:04,508 --> 00:44:06,243 REALLY VOLUNTEER EVERYTHING, 800 00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:08,412 GIVE THEMSELVES THE BLOOD, THE 801 00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,280 LIVER, THE RESEARCHERS WE WORK 802 00:44:10,347 --> 00:44:10,481 WITH. 803 00:44:10,547 --> 00:44:11,482 NOTHING WITHOUT BEING POSSIBLE 804 00:44:11,548 --> 00:44:12,983 WITHOUT THE RESEARCHERS. 805 00:44:13,050 --> 00:44:14,818 THEY MAKE EVERYTHING HAPPEN. 806 00:44:14,885 --> 00:44:16,887 THE FELLOWS WHO DO THE BULK OF 807 00:44:16,954 --> 00:44:18,389 THE WORK. 808 00:44:18,455 --> 00:44:20,824 ALL THE COLLABORATORS AND MY 809 00:44:20,891 --> 00:44:23,627 PARTNER IN CRIME. 810 00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:28,932 DR. KLEINER AND MY MENTORS I 811 00:44:28,999 --> 00:44:35,406 INCLUDE THE PICTURE BECAUSE OUR 812 00:44:35,472 --> 00:44:37,875 FEARLESS LEADERS AND THERE'S 813 00:44:37,941 --> 00:44:41,412 DR. ARIAS WHO ATTENDS OUR ROUNDS 814 00:44:41,478 --> 00:44:42,679 REGULARLY AND HAS A LOT TO SAY. 815 00:44:42,746 --> 00:44:47,418 I WANT TO END WITH THIS PATIENT 816 00:44:47,484 --> 00:44:48,652 AGAIN. 817 00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:55,692 THE FIRST PATIENT TO BE SHOWN TO 818 00:44:55,759 --> 00:44:58,362 HAVE CIRRHOSIS REGRESS AND IT'S 819 00:44:58,429 --> 00:45:04,468 POSSIBLE BY THE DREAMS AND MY 820 00:45:04,535 --> 00:45:04,968 EDI 821 00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:06,370 IDEAL IS TO TAKE IT FROM THE 822 00:45:06,437 --> 00:45:07,171 PATIENT LEVEL TO THE POPULATION 823 00:45:07,237 --> 00:45:07,371 LEVEL. 824 00:45:07,438 --> 00:45:10,207 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION. 825 00:45:10,274 --> 00:45:11,408 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 826 00:45:11,475 --> 00:45:13,610 MAY I REMIND EVERYBODY, PLEASE 827 00:45:13,677 --> 00:45:20,751 TO SUBMIT THEIR QUESTIONS 828 00:45:20,818 --> 00:45:23,253 ELECTRONICALLY IF YOU'RE 829 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:30,627 WATCHING THIS VISUALLY AND THE 830 00:45:30,694 --> 00:45:37,468 SECOND SPEAKER IS MARC GHANY TO 831 00:45:37,534 --> 00:45:44,274 TELL US ABOUT HEPATITIS E. 832 00:45:44,341 --> 00:45:46,243 >> GREAT. 833 00:45:46,310 --> 00:45:53,383 WE'RE MOVING DOWN THE HEPATITIS 834 00:45:53,450 --> 00:45:53,650 ALPHABET. 835 00:45:53,717 --> 00:45:56,220 NO LESS IMPORTANT VIRUS, I MIGHT 836 00:45:56,286 --> 00:45:56,487 ADD. 837 00:45:56,553 --> 00:46:05,129 I'LL ALSO BEGIN WITH A CASE THAT 838 00:46:05,195 --> 00:46:06,663 WILL ILLUSTRATE THE CLINICAL 839 00:46:06,730 --> 00:46:11,168 DISEASE OF THE VIRUS I'M GOING 840 00:46:11,235 --> 00:46:21,712 TO TALK ABOUT AND A 42-YEAR-OLD 841 00:46:21,778 --> 00:46:23,947 FEMALE WAS REFERRED TO US DUE TO 842 00:46:24,014 --> 00:46:25,682 A TEST WITH THE HEALTH OF HER 843 00:46:25,749 --> 00:46:29,219 LIVER AND HER PRESENTATION WAS 844 00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:32,956 100, FOUR TIMES NORMAL AND 845 00:46:33,023 --> 00:46:36,393 COMPLAINED OF MILD FATIGUE WAS 846 00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:45,169 HER ONLY SYSTEM AND HER AILITY 847 00:46:45,235 --> 00:46:47,871 PEAKED AND DEVELOPED JUANDICE 848 00:46:47,938 --> 00:46:58,315 WITH A BILIRUBIN LEVEL WAS 2500 849 00:46:58,382 --> 00:47:02,619 AND SUBSEQUENTLY TESTED POSITIVE 850 00:47:02,686 --> 00:47:06,056 FOR HEPATITIS E AND HEV AND RNA 851 00:47:06,123 --> 00:47:06,757 AND GENOTYPE 3. 852 00:47:06,823 --> 00:47:09,059 THE ONLY RISK FACTOR WE COULD 853 00:47:09,126 --> 00:47:11,628 IDENTIFY WAS A SCALPEL INJURY 854 00:47:11,695 --> 00:47:15,999 AND EXPOSURE TO PIG BLOOD AND 855 00:47:16,066 --> 00:47:25,108 DENIED FOREIGN TRAVEL OR 856 00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:33,951 INGESTION OF PORK OR GAME AND 857 00:47:34,017 --> 00:47:39,590 LEL LET ME TELL BUT HEPATITIS E 858 00:47:39,656 --> 00:47:41,491 IT'S BEEN ESTIMATED OVER 900 859 00:47:41,558 --> 00:47:45,128 BILLION PERSONS HAVE BEEN 860 00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:48,465 INFECTED TRANSLATES TO 1 IN 8 861 00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:50,067 PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND 862 00:47:50,133 --> 00:47:55,739 ESTIMATED THERE'S ABOUT 20 863 00:47:55,806 --> 00:47:57,574 MILLION INCIDENT INFECTIONS 864 00:47:57,641 --> 00:47:59,276 RESULTING IN 70,000 DEATHS AND 865 00:47:59,343 --> 00:48:02,679 MOST DO NOT PRESENT WITH 866 00:48:02,746 --> 00:48:05,082 JUANDICE AND RESULTS WITHOUT 867 00:48:05,148 --> 00:48:06,950 LONG-TERM SEQUELAE BUT SEVERE 868 00:48:07,017 --> 00:48:10,020 CASES WITH JUANDICE CAN OCCUR 869 00:48:10,087 --> 00:48:13,457 THOSE WITH IMMUNODEFICIENCY AND 870 00:48:13,523 --> 00:48:14,758 PEOPLE IN PREEXISTING DISEASE 871 00:48:14,825 --> 00:48:19,029 AND PREGNANT WOMEN. 872 00:48:19,096 --> 00:48:22,532 INTERESTINGLY, CASES OF CHRONIC 873 00:48:22,599 --> 00:48:26,203 INFECTION HAVE BEGUN TO BE 874 00:48:26,270 --> 00:48:28,972 DESCRIBED PRIMARILY IN 875 00:48:29,039 --> 00:48:29,806 IMMUNOSUPPRESSED INDIVIDUALS AND 876 00:48:29,873 --> 00:48:32,643 TRANS PLANT RECIPIENTS. 877 00:48:32,709 --> 00:48:34,511 PATIENTS ON CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY 878 00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:41,918 AND THOSE INFECTED WITH HIV. 879 00:48:41,985 --> 00:48:44,021 SOME HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES. 880 00:48:44,087 --> 00:48:48,458 THE VIRUS CAME ON THE MEDICAL 881 00:48:48,525 --> 00:48:51,895 RADAR IN 1978 WHEN THERE WAS A 882 00:48:51,962 --> 00:48:55,132 LARGE OUTBREAK OF JUANDICE IN 883 00:48:55,198 --> 00:48:58,402 KAS MIR, INDIA AND IT WAS 884 00:48:58,468 --> 00:49:08,912 THOUGHT TO BE ENTERICALLY 885 00:49:12,516 --> 00:49:15,585 TRANSMITTED NON-A AND NON-B 886 00:49:15,652 --> 00:49:17,220 HEPATITIS AND AFFECTED PERSONS 887 00:49:17,287 --> 00:49:21,758 OF 15 TO 45 AND A SELF-LIMITED 888 00:49:21,825 --> 00:49:23,060 HEPATITIS BUT HAD A HIGH 889 00:49:23,126 --> 00:49:25,829 MATERNAL AND FETAL MORTALITY AND 890 00:49:25,896 --> 00:49:27,731 LATER THOUGHT TO CAUSE 891 00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:30,267 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SPORADIC CASES 892 00:49:30,334 --> 00:49:31,134 OF HEPATITIS. 893 00:49:31,201 --> 00:49:33,704 THERE WAS A SECOND OUTBREAK OF 894 00:49:33,770 --> 00:49:36,373 HEPATITIS THAT OCCURRED IN A 895 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:37,808 RUSSIAN MILITARY CAMP IN 896 00:49:37,874 --> 00:49:40,544 AFGHANISTAN AND A CAMP DOCTOR 897 00:49:40,610 --> 00:49:43,513 TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO INGEST 898 00:49:43,580 --> 00:49:46,483 STOOL EXTRACTS FROM INFECTED 899 00:49:46,550 --> 00:49:49,886 PATIENTS AND FIVE WEEKS LATER HE 900 00:49:49,953 --> 00:49:51,722 DEVELOPED SEVERE ACUTE VIRUS AND 901 00:49:51,788 --> 00:49:55,058 VIRUS LIKE PARTICLES WERE 902 00:49:55,125 --> 00:49:57,394 OBSERVED FROM STOOL COLLECTED ON 903 00:49:57,461 --> 00:49:59,396 THE DAYS FOLLOWING INGESTION AND 904 00:49:59,463 --> 00:50:04,601 HIS STOOL WAS LATER USED TO 905 00:50:04,668 --> 00:50:10,407 INFECT THE CHIMPANZEE CONFIRMING 906 00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:14,211 IT WAS DUE TO A MICROORGANISM 907 00:50:14,277 --> 00:50:17,114 AND IN 1990 THERE WAS A 908 00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:19,216 PARTIALLY CLONED VIRUS AND THEN 909 00:50:19,282 --> 00:50:23,320 IT THE GENOME WAS SEQUENCED AND 910 00:50:23,387 --> 00:50:29,159 THE FIRST SEROLOGIC ASSAY WAS 911 00:50:29,226 --> 00:50:32,996 DEVELOPED AND THE TAXOLOGY HAS 912 00:50:33,063 --> 00:50:35,432 CHANGED AND IT BELONGS TO A 913 00:50:35,499 --> 00:50:42,506 SINGLE FAMILY AND THERE'S TWO 914 00:50:42,572 --> 00:50:42,806 SUBFAMILIES. 915 00:50:42,873 --> 00:50:45,942 THERE ARE FIVE GENERA AND NINE 916 00:50:46,009 --> 00:50:49,713 SUBSPECIES. 917 00:50:49,780 --> 00:50:55,719 THE MOST IMPORTANT IS THE TWO 918 00:50:55,786 --> 00:50:58,388 SPECIES NAMED AFTER THE PERSON 919 00:50:58,455 --> 00:50:59,923 WHO DISCOVERED THE VIRUS AND 920 00:50:59,990 --> 00:51:01,992 THERE'S EIGHT GENOTYPES. 921 00:51:02,058 --> 00:51:04,394 FIVE OF WHICH INFECT HUMANS. 922 00:51:04,461 --> 00:51:08,298 1 IN 2 ONLY INFECT HUMANS AND 3, 923 00:51:08,365 --> 00:51:11,001 4 AND 7 ARE THOUGHT TO BE 924 00:51:11,067 --> 00:51:15,238 ZOONOTIC INFECTIONS. 925 00:51:15,305 --> 00:51:19,776 THE HEPATITIS E VIRUS HAS A 926 00:51:19,843 --> 00:51:22,145 CAPSID COMPRISED OF 180 COPIES 927 00:51:22,212 --> 00:51:23,713 OF THE CAPSID PROTEINS AND TWO 928 00:51:23,780 --> 00:51:26,149 PRART CAL HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. 929 00:51:26,216 --> 00:51:29,186 ONE IS A QUASI-ENVELOPE SPECIES 930 00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:32,022 WRAPPED IN A HOST LIPID ENVELOPE 931 00:51:32,088 --> 00:51:35,325 AND NOT ENVELOPE VIRUS AND THE 932 00:51:35,392 --> 00:51:39,830 ENVELOPE VIRUS IS THOUGHT TO BE 933 00:51:39,896 --> 00:51:40,964 RESISTANT AGAINST THE VIRAL 934 00:51:41,031 --> 00:51:43,300 CAPSID PROTEIN AND MAY BE 935 00:51:43,366 --> 00:51:44,968 IMPORTANT FOR THE TROPISM AND 936 00:51:45,035 --> 00:51:46,803 THE NON-VIRAL VIRUS IS THOUGHT 937 00:51:46,870 --> 00:51:48,772 TO BE THE MORE INFECTIOUS ONE 938 00:51:48,839 --> 00:51:49,940 AND THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR 939 00:51:50,006 --> 00:51:54,911 TRANSMITTING THE INFECTION. 940 00:51:54,978 --> 00:51:57,314 AND THE GENOME AS SHOWN IN THE 941 00:51:57,380 --> 00:51:59,316 CARTOON IS A POSITIVE SENSE 942 00:51:59,382 --> 00:52:01,885 SINGLE STRAND RNA OF 943 00:52:01,952 --> 00:52:06,122 APPROXIMATELY 7.2 KB IN LINK AND 944 00:52:06,189 --> 00:52:16,666 THE IT THERE'S A POLY ADENY 945 00:52:21,638 --> 00:52:23,373 LATED END AND THERE'S A LARGE 946 00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,043 PROTEIN OF 1700 AMINO ACIDS 947 00:52:27,110 --> 00:52:31,314 IMPORTANT FOR VIRAL REPLICATION. 948 00:52:31,381 --> 00:52:40,390 RF2 AND 3 COME FROM AN RNA AND 949 00:52:40,457 --> 00:52:43,126 THERE'S A SHELL, MIDDLE AND 950 00:52:43,193 --> 00:52:45,695 PROTRUDING DOMAIN AND THOUGHT TO 951 00:52:45,762 --> 00:52:48,532 BE A SITE FOR A NEUTRALIZING 952 00:52:48,598 --> 00:52:51,668 ANTIBODY OR 3 SEEMS TO BE 953 00:52:51,735 --> 00:52:56,339 IMPORTANT FOR VIRAL ASSEMBLY AND 954 00:52:56,406 --> 00:52:59,476 SECRETION OF THE VIRUS AND THE 955 00:52:59,543 --> 00:53:02,045 FOURTH IDENTIFIED IN GEOTYPE 1 956 00:53:02,112 --> 00:53:03,313 INFECTION AND A REPLICATION 957 00:53:03,380 --> 00:53:06,049 ENHANCER MAY BE RELEVANT FOR THE 958 00:53:06,116 --> 00:53:10,287 DISEASE MEDIATED OR CAUSED BY 959 00:53:10,353 --> 00:53:12,822 HEPATITIS E VIRUS TYPE 1. 960 00:53:12,889 --> 00:53:14,257 SO HOW DOES THE VIRUS REPLICATE? 961 00:53:14,324 --> 00:53:17,093 THAT IS SHOWN IN THE CARTOON. 962 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,397 THE VIRUS CAUSES AND INFECTS 963 00:53:20,463 --> 00:53:31,107 REPLICATES WITHIN HE PAPATOCYTE 964 00:53:31,174 --> 00:53:33,076 AND INTERACTED WITH ANOTHER 965 00:53:33,143 --> 00:53:35,512 SURFACE RECEPTOR AND THROUGH A 966 00:53:35,579 --> 00:53:45,889 MEDIATED PROCESS. 967 00:53:48,725 --> 00:53:52,329 AND ENCODES THE ORF1 PROTEIN FOR 968 00:53:52,395 --> 00:53:59,235 A SUB GENOMIC NEGATIVE STRAND 969 00:53:59,302 --> 00:54:06,343 RNA WHICH SERVES AS A TEMPLATE 970 00:54:06,409 --> 00:54:07,877 FOR TRANSCRIPTION AND 971 00:54:07,944 --> 00:54:12,148 TRANSLATION OF THE OTHER TWO 972 00:54:12,215 --> 00:54:15,318 PROTEINS THE ORF2 AND 3 AND THE 973 00:54:15,385 --> 00:54:18,855 CAPSID PROTEINS SHOWN BY THE 974 00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:23,793 LIGHT BLUE TRIANGLES GOES TO THE 975 00:54:23,860 --> 00:54:27,063 RETICULUM WHERE VIRAL ASSEMBLY 976 00:54:27,130 --> 00:54:29,466 HAPPENS WITH THE POSITIVE SENSE 977 00:54:29,532 --> 00:54:29,799 RNA STRAND. 978 00:54:29,866 --> 00:54:38,208 THIS WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH THE 979 00:54:38,274 --> 00:54:39,042 SECRETORY PROCESS OF THE CELL 980 00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:43,680 AND REQUIRES THE ORF3 PROTEIN 981 00:54:43,747 --> 00:54:46,683 FOR THIS PURPOSE AND BECOMES AN 982 00:54:46,750 --> 00:54:51,421 ENVELOPE WITH HOST LIPIDS AND 983 00:54:51,488 --> 00:54:54,124 SECRETED THROUGH AN EXOSOMAL 984 00:54:54,190 --> 00:54:57,360 PATHWAY AND IT CONTAINS HOST 985 00:54:57,427 --> 00:54:58,662 LIPIDS AS WELL AS OPEN READING 986 00:54:58,728 --> 00:55:00,897 FRAME THREE. 987 00:55:00,964 --> 00:55:06,302 AND IT'S THEN SECRETED INTO 988 00:55:06,369 --> 00:55:09,339 WHERE THE BILE REMOVES THE HOST 989 00:55:09,406 --> 00:55:14,711 LIPIDS AND THE NON-ENVELOPE 990 00:55:14,778 --> 00:55:17,981 VIRUS GOES DOWN THE 991 00:55:18,048 --> 00:55:20,116 GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AND 992 00:55:20,183 --> 00:55:25,255 SECRETED IN STOOL AND COMPLETES 993 00:55:25,321 --> 00:55:28,091 ITS LIFE CYCLE AND 4 HAS BEEN 994 00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:31,361 IDENTIFIED AS A HYPERENDEMIC, 995 00:55:31,428 --> 00:55:40,970 DISTINCTIVE AND SPORE -- SPO 996 00:55:41,037 --> 00:55:45,175 SPORATIC AND THERE'S ASIA AND 997 00:55:45,241 --> 00:55:48,745 MEXICO AND ENDEMIC REGIONS SHOW 998 00:55:48,812 --> 00:55:53,383 CHINA, PARTS OF JAPAN AND THE 999 00:55:53,450 --> 00:55:56,820 MIDDLE EAST AND ENDEMIC REGIONS 1000 00:55:56,886 --> 00:56:00,957 ARE ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE WATER 1001 00:56:01,024 --> 00:56:05,962 BORN OUTBREAKS TYPICALLY DUE TO 1002 00:56:06,029 --> 00:56:08,465 HEPATITIS GENOTYPE 1 AND 2. 1003 00:56:08,531 --> 00:56:09,733 THERE'S A DISTINCT ZONE SHOWN IN 1004 00:56:09,799 --> 00:56:11,034 GREEN AND IT'S DIFFERENT FROM 1005 00:56:11,101 --> 00:56:13,737 OTHER REGIONS OF THE WORLD AND 1006 00:56:13,803 --> 00:56:17,140 DUE TO INFECTION WITH A SUBTYPE 1007 00:56:17,207 --> 00:56:19,175 OF GENOTYPE 1 AND THEN FOR THE 1008 00:56:19,242 --> 00:56:22,979 REST OF THE WORLD WHICH IS 1009 00:56:23,046 --> 00:56:26,416 ESSENTIALLY MOSTLY DEVELOPED 1010 00:56:26,483 --> 00:56:28,651 REGIONS BUT ALSO SOME EMERGING 1011 00:56:28,718 --> 00:56:34,491 COUNTRIES DUE TO SPORADIC OR 1012 00:56:34,557 --> 00:56:38,361 LOCALLY ACQUIRED HEPATITIS E 1013 00:56:38,428 --> 00:56:40,330 ASSOCIATED WITH INFECTION AND 1014 00:56:40,396 --> 00:56:42,766 JUNO TYPE 3 AND 4 WE'LL TALK 1015 00:56:42,832 --> 00:56:44,033 ABOUT FURTHER IN THE TALK. 1016 00:56:44,100 --> 00:56:46,436 IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE 1017 00:56:46,503 --> 00:56:49,973 THE TRUE PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS 1018 00:56:50,039 --> 00:56:55,545 E GLOBALLY BECAUSE OF THE 1019 00:56:55,612 --> 00:56:58,214 SPECIFICITY OF THE ASSAYS AND 1020 00:56:58,281 --> 00:56:59,682 PAUCITY FROM THE AMERICAS AND 1021 00:56:59,749 --> 00:57:01,818 THIS IS DATA FROM META-ANALYSIS 1022 00:57:01,885 --> 00:57:04,354 SHOWING THE PREVALENCE BASED ON 1023 00:57:04,420 --> 00:57:10,493 IGG, IGM AND HEV RNA AND THE 1024 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:21,104 HIGHEST PREVALENCE IS IN AFRICA. 1025 00:57:22,472 --> 00:57:24,741 THE HIGHEST PREVALENCE IS IN 1026 00:57:24,808 --> 00:57:29,846 AFRICA AND ASIA FOLLOWED BY 1027 00:57:29,913 --> 00:57:34,684 SOUTH AMERICA AND OCEANA AND THE 1028 00:57:34,751 --> 00:57:37,120 PREVALENCE OF HEV RNA VERY LOW 1029 00:57:37,187 --> 00:57:40,323 BUT WE SHOULD INTERPRET SOME 1030 00:57:40,390 --> 00:57:41,791 DATA WITH CAUTION BECAUSE OF THE 1031 00:57:41,858 --> 00:57:43,059 PAUCITY OF DATA PARTICULARLY 1032 00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:45,995 FROM AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS. 1033 00:57:46,062 --> 00:57:48,865 THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE GLOBAL 1034 00:57:48,932 --> 00:57:50,300 DISTRIBUTION OF THE FOUR MAJOR 1035 00:57:50,366 --> 00:57:53,837 PHENOTYPES THAT INFECT HUMANS, 1 1036 00:57:53,903 --> 00:57:55,405 THROUGH 4. 1037 00:57:55,471 --> 00:58:00,643 1 IN RED AND 2 IN BLUE AND 3 IN 1038 00:58:00,710 --> 00:58:02,378 YELLOW AND 4 IN BROWN. 1039 00:58:02,445 --> 00:58:04,681 YOU SEE THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION 1040 00:58:04,747 --> 00:58:07,951 OF THE GENOTYPES ESSENTIALLY 1041 00:58:08,017 --> 00:58:11,521 MIRRORS OF THAT THE DIFFERENT 1042 00:58:11,588 --> 00:58:14,457 ZONALITY OF HEPATITIS D ON THE 1043 00:58:14,524 --> 00:58:15,892 PREACHES SLIDE. 1044 00:58:15,959 --> 00:58:20,563 SO HEPATITIS GEOTYPES 1 AND 2 1045 00:58:20,630 --> 00:58:25,101 ARE ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE 1046 00:58:25,168 --> 00:58:27,871 WATERBORNE OUTBREAKS IN THE 1047 00:58:27,937 --> 00:58:29,272 REGIONS SHOWN HERE AND GENOTYPE 1048 00:58:29,339 --> 00:58:33,142 3 IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOCALLY 1049 00:58:33,209 --> 00:58:35,645 ACQUIRED HEPATITIS E. 1050 00:58:35,712 --> 00:58:41,117 AND GENOTYPE 4 IS SEEN IN CHINA 1051 00:58:41,184 --> 00:58:45,054 AND JAPAN. 1052 00:58:45,121 --> 00:58:46,890 TRANSMISSION AND HYPER ENDEMIC 1053 00:58:46,956 --> 00:58:49,993 AND ENDEMIC REGIONS IS THROUGH 1054 00:58:50,059 --> 00:58:52,161 THE FECAL-ORAL ROUTE AND WATER 1055 00:58:52,228 --> 00:58:54,030 AND PERSON TO PERSON 1056 00:58:54,097 --> 00:58:55,565 TRANSMISSION NOT THE COMMON 1057 00:58:55,632 --> 00:58:56,566 ROUTE OF TRANSMISSION. 1058 00:58:56,633 --> 00:59:05,241 BY TRANSMISSION OF SPORADIC OR 1059 00:59:05,308 --> 00:59:07,510 HEPATITIS B IS THOUGHT TO BE 1060 00:59:07,577 --> 00:59:09,946 ZOONOTIC AND TRANSMISSION IS 1061 00:59:10,013 --> 00:59:11,381 PRIMARILY THROUGH DIRECT CONTACT 1062 00:59:11,447 --> 00:59:14,050 WITH AN INFECTED ANIMAL SUCH AS 1063 00:59:14,117 --> 00:59:15,585 A PERSON WITH OCCUPATIONAL 1064 00:59:15,652 --> 00:59:20,623 EXPOSURE SUCH AS VETS, FARMERS, 1065 00:59:20,690 --> 00:59:25,128 FARM WORKERS AND INDIRECT 1066 00:59:25,194 --> 00:59:29,299 EXPOSURE TO ANIMAL FECES FROM 1067 00:59:29,365 --> 00:59:30,400 CONTAMINATED WATER AND THE OTHER 1068 00:59:30,466 --> 00:59:34,270 IS THROUGH CONSUMPTION MUCH 1069 00:59:34,337 --> 00:59:37,974 INFECTED MEAT IMPROPERLY 1070 00:59:38,041 --> 00:59:41,511 PREPARED AND MEAT FROM PIGS, 1071 00:59:41,577 --> 00:59:46,082 WILD BORE OR DEER AND THERE'S 1072 00:59:46,149 --> 00:59:48,084 BLOOD TRANSMISSION THROUGH BLOOD 1073 00:59:48,151 --> 00:59:50,820 PRODUCTS FROM MOTHER TO INFANT 1074 00:59:50,887 --> 00:59:55,858 OR VERTICAL TRANSMISSION AND 1075 00:59:55,925 --> 00:59:57,694 THROUGH OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE. 1076 00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,529 AS MENTIONED ALSO WITH ENDEMIC 1077 00:59:59,595 --> 01:00:00,330 FORMS FROM PERSON TO PERSON IS 1078 01:00:00,396 --> 01:00:07,503 NOT COMMON. 1079 01:00:07,570 --> 01:00:11,107 THIS SHOWS THE COURSE OF ACUTE 1080 01:00:11,174 --> 01:00:14,110 HEPATITIS E AND THE MAJORITY OF 1081 01:00:14,177 --> 01:00:15,945 CASES HEPATITIS E PRESENTS AS A 1082 01:00:16,012 --> 01:00:18,414 SYMPTOMATIC INFECTION AND NOT 1083 01:00:18,481 --> 01:00:21,751 RECOGNIZED BUT IN 30% OF 1084 01:00:21,818 --> 01:00:23,586 PATIENTS THE CLASSIC 1085 01:00:23,653 --> 01:00:28,891 PRESENTATION ENSUES AND THERE'S 1086 01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:37,100 A PRODROMAL AND CONVALESCENT 1087 01:00:37,166 --> 01:00:39,369 PHASE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AND 1088 01:00:39,435 --> 01:00:42,105 ONE LASTED BY TWO TO SIX WEEKS 1089 01:00:42,171 --> 01:00:45,108 CHARACTERIZED BY NON SPECIFIC 1090 01:00:45,174 --> 01:00:50,213 SYMPTOMS SUCH AS MALAISE AND 1091 01:00:50,279 --> 01:00:53,349 THERE'S ENTERIC PHASE WHERE 1092 01:00:53,416 --> 01:00:54,717 JUANDICE IS PRESENT AND DARK 1093 01:00:54,784 --> 01:00:56,586 URINE AND CAN LAST FROM A COUPLE 1094 01:00:56,652 --> 01:00:58,021 DAYS TO SEVERAL WEEKS AND 1095 01:00:58,087 --> 01:00:59,856 FOLLOWED BY THE CONVALESCENT 1096 01:00:59,922 --> 01:01:03,726 PHASE WHERE RECOVERY ENSUES IN 1097 01:01:03,793 --> 01:01:09,098 ALMOST ALL CASES AND ALT LEVELS 1098 01:01:09,165 --> 01:01:13,069 RETURN TO NORMAL AND JUANDICE 1099 01:01:13,136 --> 01:01:13,503 RESOLVES. 1100 01:01:13,569 --> 01:01:15,772 LOOKING AT THE SEROLOGIC 1101 01:01:15,838 --> 01:01:19,776 PROFILE, IGM IS DETECTED IN 1102 01:01:19,842 --> 01:01:21,511 ALMOST EVERYONE AT THE TIME OF 1103 01:01:21,577 --> 01:01:23,446 PRESENTATION OF JUANDICE AND CAN 1104 01:01:23,513 --> 01:01:26,649 BE RELIABLY DETECTED IN MOST 1105 01:01:26,716 --> 01:01:27,316 INDIVIDUALS WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF 1106 01:01:27,383 --> 01:01:30,186 INFECTION. 1107 01:01:30,253 --> 01:01:33,122 IT RAPIDLY RISES AND REMAINS 1108 01:01:33,189 --> 01:01:37,393 DETECTABLE UP TO FIVE MONTHS. 1109 01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:39,529 IGG ANTIBODY FOLLOWS CLOSELY THE 1110 01:01:39,595 --> 01:01:41,964 COURSE OF IGM BUT REMAINS 1111 01:01:42,031 --> 01:01:45,068 ELEVATED UP TO 14 YEARS AND IS A 1112 01:01:45,134 --> 01:01:45,701 MARKER OF PRIOR EXPOSURE TO THE 1113 01:01:45,768 --> 01:01:50,606 VIRUS. 1114 01:01:50,673 --> 01:01:52,775 HEPATITIS E VIRUS RNA AND VIRUS 1115 01:01:52,842 --> 01:01:56,512 DETECT IN STOOL CAN BE DETECTED 1116 01:01:56,579 --> 01:02:01,350 DURING THE INCUBATION OF 1117 01:02:01,417 --> 01:02:03,286 PRODOMAL PHASE AND REMAINS 1118 01:02:03,352 --> 01:02:05,154 POSITIVE FOUR TO SIX WEEKS 1119 01:02:05,221 --> 01:02:05,755 RESPECTIVELY FOR EACH OF THE 1120 01:02:05,822 --> 01:02:16,199 DIFFERENT PARAMETERS. 1121 01:02:17,233 --> 01:02:19,368 THERE'S DIAGNOSIS FIRST THE 1122 01:02:19,435 --> 01:02:21,637 INDEX OF SUSPICION AND THE FIRST 1123 01:02:21,704 --> 01:02:25,775 TEST SHOULD BE FOR ANTI-HIV AGM 1124 01:02:25,842 --> 01:02:28,010 AND IF POSITIVE IT SHOWS RECENT 1125 01:02:28,077 --> 01:02:29,679 OR ACTIVE INFECTION BUT SHOULD 1126 01:02:29,745 --> 01:02:35,151 BE CONFIRMED BY TESTING FOR 1127 01:02:35,218 --> 01:02:35,551 HEPATITIS E RNA. 1128 01:02:35,618 --> 01:02:38,721 IF BOTH ARE POSITIVE THIS 1129 01:02:38,788 --> 01:02:41,624 INDICATES RECENT AND ACTIVE 1130 01:02:41,691 --> 01:02:42,225 INFECTION. 1131 01:02:42,291 --> 01:02:43,860 NOW, IF IMMUNOCOMPROMISED 1132 01:02:43,926 --> 01:02:47,230 INDIVIDUALS TESTING SHOULD BEGIN 1133 01:02:47,296 --> 01:02:54,770 WITH ANTI-HIV IGM BUT A MAJORITY 1134 01:02:54,837 --> 01:02:57,974 MAY BE NEGATIVE AND IT SHOULD BE 1135 01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:04,413 MANDATORY TO TEST FOR IGV RNA 1136 01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,449 AND IF PRESENT INDICATES RECENT 1137 01:03:06,516 --> 01:03:06,849 INFECTION. 1138 01:03:06,916 --> 01:03:10,153 IN THE PAST THE AVAILABILITY OF 1139 01:03:10,219 --> 01:03:10,887 TESTING FOR THE RNA WAS 1140 01:03:10,953 --> 01:03:11,821 DIFFICULT TO COME ABOUT. 1141 01:03:11,888 --> 01:03:14,257 THIS HAS NOW CHANGED AND THESE 1142 01:03:14,323 --> 01:03:16,125 TESTS ARE AVAILABLE AT MOST 1143 01:03:16,192 --> 01:03:17,927 COMMERCIAL LABORATORIES. 1144 01:03:17,994 --> 01:03:24,333 HERE AT THE NIH PATRICIA'S 1145 01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:28,471 FOSSI'S LAB STILL TESTS FOR IT 1146 01:03:28,538 --> 01:03:32,341 AND WHEN SHOULD ONE TEST FOR 1147 01:03:32,408 --> 01:03:33,876 HEPATITIS E VIRUS RNA IN 1148 01:03:33,943 --> 01:03:35,278 SITUATIONS WHERE PATIENTS HAVE A 1149 01:03:35,344 --> 01:03:38,281 POOR IGM RESPONSE IT'S 1150 01:03:38,347 --> 01:03:43,119 RECOMMENDED TO ORDER AN HEV00 1151 01:03:43,186 --> 01:03:45,121 AND MANDATORY FOR CHRONIC 1152 01:03:45,188 --> 01:03:47,657 INFECTION AND PRIOR TO JORG 1153 01:03:47,723 --> 01:03:49,926 ORRINGAN TRANSPLANTATION. 1154 01:03:49,992 --> 01:03:51,427 AND NEEDED FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION 1155 01:03:51,494 --> 01:03:52,929 AND I'LL GET TO THIS LATER IN 1156 01:03:52,995 --> 01:03:53,629 THE TALK. 1157 01:03:53,696 --> 01:03:55,231 OF COURSE TO EVALUATE THE 1158 01:03:55,298 --> 01:03:57,099 RESPONSE TO ANTI-VIRAL DRUG 1159 01:03:57,166 --> 01:04:00,203 THERAPY. 1160 01:04:00,269 --> 01:04:04,440 NOW, I WANTED TO SAY A FEW WORDS 1161 01:04:04,507 --> 01:04:07,877 ABOUT DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR 1162 01:04:07,944 --> 01:04:08,544 HEPATITIS E BECAUSE THERE ARE A 1163 01:04:08,611 --> 01:04:10,780 LOT OF ISSUES CURRENTLY WITH THE 1164 01:04:10,846 --> 01:04:13,182 CURRENT ASSAYS. 1165 01:04:13,249 --> 01:04:17,386 MOST THE DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS RIGHT 1166 01:04:17,453 --> 01:04:25,428 NOW RELY ON RECOMBINANT ASSAYS 1167 01:04:25,494 --> 01:04:27,630 AND THEY'RE HIGHLY VARIABLE. 1168 01:04:27,697 --> 01:04:28,764 THIS LEADS TO A LOT OF 1169 01:04:28,831 --> 01:04:30,099 CONSTERNATION WITH BEING ABLE TO 1170 01:04:30,166 --> 01:04:34,070 DETERMINE WHAT THE TRUE 1171 01:04:34,136 --> 01:04:35,338 PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS E IS 1172 01:04:35,404 --> 01:04:37,740 GLOBALLY AND THIS WAS 1173 01:04:37,807 --> 01:04:40,209 ILLUSTRATED IN THE STUDY BY 1174 01:04:40,276 --> 01:04:44,447 DR. PURCELL WHERE THEY TESTED A 1175 01:04:44,513 --> 01:04:47,016 PANEL FOR HEPATITIS E USING 12 1176 01:04:47,083 --> 01:04:50,286 ASSAYS AND YOU CAN SEE AMONG 1177 01:04:50,353 --> 01:04:53,122 PRIOR REACTIVE TEST SAMPLES BY 1178 01:04:53,189 --> 01:04:56,926 TWO OR MORE TESTS, YOU CAN SEE A 1179 01:04:56,993 --> 01:04:58,361 WIDE VARIATION IN POSITIVITY 1180 01:04:58,427 --> 01:05:04,700 THERE FROM A LOW OF 6% TO A HIGH 1181 01:05:04,767 --> 01:05:07,603 OF 100% AND YOU CAN SEE THE 1182 01:05:07,670 --> 01:05:09,605 NUMBER THAT TESTED POSITIVE 1183 01:05:09,672 --> 01:05:13,542 RANGE FROM 4 TO 71% AND AMONG 39 1184 01:05:13,609 --> 01:05:14,877 SAMPLES PREVIOUSLY TESTED 1185 01:05:14,944 --> 01:05:18,447 NEGATIVE BY TWO OR MORE ASSAYS, 1186 01:05:18,514 --> 01:05:20,683 THE DETECTION RATE RANGED FROM 0 1187 01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:21,517 TO 31%. 1188 01:05:21,584 --> 01:05:25,821 SO THE OVER ALL CONCORDANCE 1189 01:05:25,888 --> 01:05:29,091 RANGED FROM 49 TO 94%. 1190 01:05:29,158 --> 01:05:33,663 THIS HIGHLIGHTS THE ISSUE WITH 1191 01:05:33,729 --> 01:05:36,299 THE CURRENT DIAGNOSTIC ASSAYS. 1192 01:05:36,365 --> 01:05:40,736 THIS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT IN 1193 01:05:40,803 --> 01:05:41,671 LOW ENDEMIC REGIONS. 1194 01:05:41,737 --> 01:05:43,306 I WANTED TO BRING THIS TO YOUR 1195 01:05:43,372 --> 01:05:45,174 ATTENTION AND WORD OF CAUTION 1196 01:05:45,241 --> 01:05:48,110 HOW WE INTERPRET THE RESULTS OF 1197 01:05:48,177 --> 01:05:49,545 PREVALENCE STUDIES FROM LOW 1198 01:05:49,612 --> 01:05:49,912 ENDEMIC AREAS. 1199 01:05:49,979 --> 01:05:53,816 IT'S ALL OVER THE MAP. 1200 01:05:53,883 --> 01:05:56,552 SO, I WANT TO TURN TO THE 1201 01:05:56,619 --> 01:05:58,487 CLINICAL FEATURES OF HEPATITIS E 1202 01:05:58,554 --> 01:06:02,325 AND THIS SHOWS THE COMPARISON OF 1203 01:06:02,391 --> 01:06:06,495 CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC FEE 1204 01:06:06,562 --> 01:06:10,032 TIRES OF HEPATITIS E AND THEY'RE 1205 01:06:10,099 --> 01:06:12,168 QUITE DISTINCTIVE AND DIFFERENT 1206 01:06:12,234 --> 01:06:20,843 AND FROM OTHER FORMS OF VIRAL 1207 01:06:20,910 --> 01:06:21,110 HEPATITIS. 1208 01:06:21,177 --> 01:06:23,646 ONE CAN DESCRIBE THEM AS TWO 1209 01:06:23,713 --> 01:06:24,246 DIFFERENT DISEASES. 1210 01:06:24,313 --> 01:06:27,817 THE DISTRIBUTION IS PRIMARILY 1211 01:06:27,883 --> 01:06:33,923 THOSE 15 TO 40 YEARS OLD WHERE 1212 01:06:33,989 --> 01:06:44,300 LOCALLY ACQUIRED AUTOCHTHONOUS 1213 01:06:44,367 --> 01:06:46,035 IS IN DIFFERENT FORM AND THERE'S 1214 01:06:46,102 --> 01:06:51,640 MALE DOMINANCE IN LOCALLY 1215 01:06:51,707 --> 01:06:59,548 ACQUIRED HAEMENT 1216 01:07:03,753 --> 01:07:06,222 AND THE SEASONALITY WITH THE 1217 01:07:06,288 --> 01:07:07,790 FORMS AND LOC ALY 1218 01:07:10,726 --> 01:07:12,628 -- LOCALLY ACQUIRED HEPATITIS E 1219 01:07:12,695 --> 01:07:18,200 AND THE ONLY RESERVOIR IS HUMAN 1220 01:07:18,267 --> 01:07:28,811 WHERE AUTOCHTHONOUS HEPATITIS E 1221 01:07:40,890 --> 01:07:45,094 THERE'S A PREVALENCE THROUGHOUT 1222 01:07:45,161 --> 01:07:47,296 LIFE AND AUTOCHTHONOUS HEPATITIS 1223 01:07:47,363 --> 01:07:49,098 E MY PRESENT WITH NEUROLOGICAL 1224 01:07:49,165 --> 01:07:51,567 COMPLICATIONS. 1225 01:07:51,634 --> 01:07:55,137 SO THE CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF 1226 01:07:55,204 --> 01:07:59,542 LOCALLY ACQUIRED AUTOCHTHONOUS 1227 01:07:59,608 --> 01:08:01,143 HEPATITIS E IS SHOWN HERE AND 1228 01:08:01,210 --> 01:08:03,412 FOR MOST IT'S AN ASYMPTOMATIC 1229 01:08:03,479 --> 01:08:07,550 INFECTION AND A SMALLER 1230 01:08:07,616 --> 01:08:08,918 PROPORTION PRESENT WITH 1231 01:08:08,984 --> 01:08:09,819 INFECTION THAT GOES UNRECOGNIZED 1232 01:08:09,885 --> 01:08:13,022 AND A SMALL PROPORTION OF 1233 01:08:13,088 --> 01:08:16,659 PATIENTS PRESENT WITH 1234 01:08:16,725 --> 01:08:17,927 SYMPTOMATIC CLASSIC HEPATITIS 1235 01:08:17,993 --> 01:08:18,994 WITH JUANDICE. 1236 01:08:19,061 --> 01:08:24,300 I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ONE NEEDS 1237 01:08:24,366 --> 01:08:29,872 TO HAVE A HIGH SUSPICION FOR 1238 01:08:29,939 --> 01:08:32,107 HEPATITIS E BECAUSE THERE'S A 1239 01:08:32,174 --> 01:08:34,276 VARIABLE PRESENTATION THAT 1240 01:08:34,343 --> 01:08:35,544 INCLUDES ACUTE HEPATITIS AND 1241 01:08:35,611 --> 01:08:37,980 ACUTE AND CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE 1242 01:08:38,047 --> 01:08:41,617 MAY PRESENT AS A DRUG INDUCED 1243 01:08:41,684 --> 01:08:42,251 LIVER INJURY WITH SYMPTOMS 1244 01:08:42,318 --> 01:08:44,653 WITHOUT LIVER FEATURES AND THEN 1245 01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:46,355 AS MISCELLANEOUS SYNDROME 1246 01:08:46,422 --> 01:08:49,158 INCLUDING THAT OF A GLOBULAR 1247 01:08:49,225 --> 01:08:49,859 NEPHRITIS. 1248 01:08:49,925 --> 01:08:53,195 YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR CLINICAL 1249 01:08:53,262 --> 01:08:59,668 CLINICIAN HAT ON TO SOMETIMES 1250 01:08:59,735 --> 01:09:00,302 DIAGNOSE HEPATITIS E AND THIS 1251 01:09:00,369 --> 01:09:01,837 WILL BE IN SEVERAL STUDIES I'LL 1252 01:09:01,904 --> 01:09:06,942 SHARE NOW. 1253 01:09:07,009 --> 01:09:10,946 ONE STUDY SHOWED THE LIVER 1254 01:09:11,013 --> 01:09:13,082 FAILURE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH 1255 01:09:13,148 --> 01:09:14,350 MORTALITY AND THIS WAS CONDUCTED 1256 01:09:14,416 --> 01:09:24,894 IN INDIA LOOKING AT 107 CIR 1257 01:09:30,165 --> 01:09:34,603 OTICS SUGGESTING IT MAY BE 1258 01:09:34,670 --> 01:09:35,571 PREDISPOSED TO ACQUIRING 1259 01:09:35,638 --> 01:09:46,115 HEPATITIS E VIRUS INFECTION. 1260 01:09:52,721 --> 01:09:55,991 AND GROUP 3 WAS CIR OTIC WITH A 1261 01:09:56,058 --> 01:09:58,727 STABLE DISEASE AND LOOKING AT 1262 01:09:58,794 --> 01:10:04,199 THE GREEN LINE THEY HAVE RAPID 1263 01:10:04,266 --> 01:10:11,707 DECOMPOSITION ANDRHOTIC WITH A 1264 01:10:11,774 --> 01:10:12,308 STABLE DISEASE AND LOOKING AT 1265 01:10:12,374 --> 01:10:12,942 THE GREEN LINE THEY HAVE RAPID 1266 01:10:13,008 --> 01:10:15,511 DECOMPOSITION AND IN COMPARISON 1267 01:10:15,578 --> 01:10:19,615 THOSE WITH CIRRHOSIS WITHOUT 1268 01:10:19,682 --> 01:10:21,450 DECOMPENSATION VIRAL RNA WAS 1269 01:10:21,517 --> 01:10:23,319 PRESENT IN ONLY 10% AND THEIR 1270 01:10:23,385 --> 01:10:25,321 SURVIVAL WAS MORE THAN 90% AT 1271 01:10:25,387 --> 01:10:26,689 ONE YEAR. 1272 01:10:26,755 --> 01:10:29,525 IN CONTRAST, HEPATITIS D IS 1273 01:10:29,592 --> 01:10:31,994 RARELY ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE AND 1274 01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:33,095 CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE IN THE 1275 01:10:33,162 --> 01:10:34,897 U.S. AND THIS IS DATA FROM THE 1276 01:10:34,964 --> 01:10:39,835 LIVER UNIT CONDUCTED BY ONE OF 1277 01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:42,538 THE FELLOWS AND THEY LOOKED AT 1278 01:10:42,605 --> 01:10:47,977 PATIENTS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN 1279 01:10:48,043 --> 01:10:58,554 THE TRIAL LOOKING AT LOW DOSE 1280 01:11:02,257 --> 01:11:05,728 PEGINTERFERON AND TREATED FOR 1281 01:11:05,794 --> 01:11:06,695 FOUR YEARS. 1282 01:11:06,762 --> 01:11:09,565 THERE WERE 314 PATIENTS WHO 1283 01:11:09,632 --> 01:11:14,203 EXPERIENCED HEPATIC 1284 01:11:14,269 --> 01:11:17,773 DECOMPENSATION AND 89 PATIENTS 1285 01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:22,878 WEREFIDE WITH RAPID 1286 01:11:22,945 --> 01:11:26,649 DECOMPENSATION WITHIN 24 WEEK 1287 01:11:26,715 --> 01:11:27,783 PERIOD AND IDENTIFIED 267 1288 01:11:27,850 --> 01:11:28,851 CONTROLS WITHOUT DECOMPENSATION 1289 01:11:28,917 --> 01:11:33,122 AND THEY WERE ALL TESTED FOR 1290 01:11:33,188 --> 01:11:34,123 HEPATITIS E. 1291 01:11:34,189 --> 01:11:36,525 I GG, IGM AND RNA. 1292 01:11:36,592 --> 01:11:42,398 YOU CAN SEE THE PREVALENCE OF 1293 01:11:42,464 --> 01:11:44,366 IGG WAS SIMILAR BETWEEN CASES 1294 01:11:44,433 --> 01:11:45,668 AND CONTROLS SIMILAR TO THE 1295 01:11:45,734 --> 01:11:46,235 PREVALENCE OF THE 1296 01:11:46,301 --> 01:11:47,503 U.S. POPULATION AT THE TIME THE 1297 01:11:47,569 --> 01:11:49,905 STUDY WAS CONDUCTED. 1298 01:11:49,972 --> 01:11:52,608 AND THE PREVALENCE OF IGM WAS 1299 01:11:52,675 --> 01:11:55,210 BETWEEN CASES OF CONTROLS AND NO 1300 01:11:55,277 --> 01:11:58,747 PATIENTS HAVE HIV RNA 1301 01:11:58,814 --> 01:12:01,283 HIGHLIGHTING AT LEAST IN 1302 01:12:01,350 --> 01:12:02,451 NON-ENDEMIC AREA IT'S NOT A 1303 01:12:02,518 --> 01:12:04,753 CAUSE OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC LIVER 1304 01:12:04,820 --> 01:12:05,788 FAILURE AND ANOTHER STUD AGREE 1305 01:12:05,854 --> 01:12:07,222 FROM THE U.S. 1306 01:12:07,289 --> 01:12:12,561 THIS ONE FROM THE ACUTE LIVER 1307 01:12:12,628 --> 01:12:15,731 INJURY CONSORTIUM ANOTHER LARGE 1308 01:12:15,798 --> 01:12:19,368 NIH CONSORTIUM OF OVER 600 1309 01:12:19,435 --> 01:12:24,506 PATIENTS WERE EFFTESTED WITH AC 1310 01:12:24,573 --> 01:12:27,643 LIVER FAILURE AND ONLY 10% 1311 01:12:27,710 --> 01:12:36,085 TESTED POSITIVE FOR IGG AND ONE 1312 01:12:36,151 --> 01:12:38,787 WAS FOUND TO BE RNA POSITIVE AND 1313 01:12:38,854 --> 01:12:40,589 IDENTIFIED AS HAVING GENOTYPE 3 1314 01:12:40,656 --> 01:12:47,162 INFECTION AND ONE HAD DETECT AND 1315 01:12:47,229 --> 01:12:50,999 HEPATITIS E ANTIGEN HIGHLIGHTING 1316 01:12:51,066 --> 01:12:54,203 IT'S NOT A MAJOR CAUSE OF ACUTE 1317 01:12:54,269 --> 01:12:58,340 LIVER FAILURE COMPARED TO THE 1318 01:12:58,407 --> 01:13:01,577 DATA FROM EPIDEMIC AREAS. 1319 01:13:01,643 --> 01:13:04,713 HEPATITIS E MAY MASQUERADE AS A 1320 01:13:04,780 --> 01:13:05,547 DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY. 1321 01:13:05,614 --> 01:13:08,183 THIS IS DATA FROM A LARGE NIH 1322 01:13:08,250 --> 01:13:11,687 FUNDED NETWORK LOOKING AT OVER 1323 01:13:11,754 --> 01:13:22,231 300 PATIENTS AND DILI AND ONLY A 1324 01:13:22,297 --> 01:13:28,303 MINORITY WERE IGM POSITIVE AND 1325 01:13:28,370 --> 01:13:30,672 ONLY FOUR WERE RNA POSITIVE AND 1326 01:13:30,739 --> 01:13:33,942 THEY REASSESSED AND IT WAS 1327 01:13:34,009 --> 01:13:38,614 EVIDENT SEVEN OF THESE HEPATITIS 1328 01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:40,749 E WAS LIKELY THE CAUSE AND THE 1329 01:13:40,816 --> 01:13:42,317 CASES WERE MISDIAGNOSED AND THE 1330 01:13:42,384 --> 01:13:48,223 OTHER TWO WERE LIKELY TO HAVE 1331 01:13:48,290 --> 01:13:49,792 HEPATITIS E AND NOT A 1332 01:13:49,858 --> 01:13:57,466 DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY AND IT 1333 01:13:57,533 --> 01:13:59,601 CAN PRESENT WITH AN INITIAL 1334 01:13:59,668 --> 01:14:00,602 PRESENTATION THOUGH A LOT OF THE 1335 01:14:00,669 --> 01:14:02,204 DATA COMES FROM SINGLE CASE 1336 01:14:02,271 --> 01:14:04,239 REPORTS OR SMALL CASE SERIES SO 1337 01:14:04,306 --> 01:14:06,575 IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH 1338 01:14:06,642 --> 01:14:07,042 A CAUSALITY. 1339 01:14:07,109 --> 01:14:10,078 HOWEVER, FOR THE NEUROLOGICAL 1340 01:14:10,145 --> 01:14:10,746 COMPLICATIONS, THEY'RE MUCH 1341 01:14:10,813 --> 01:14:14,249 LARGER SERIES AND A GREATER 1342 01:14:14,316 --> 01:14:16,919 BURDEN OF DATA WHICH DOES 1343 01:14:16,985 --> 01:14:21,089 SUGGEST THERE MIGHT BE A 1344 01:14:21,156 --> 01:14:31,600 CAUSALITY AS LISTED THERE. 1345 01:14:35,737 --> 01:14:37,906 I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT PREGNANCY 1346 01:14:37,973 --> 01:14:40,142 WHERE IT CAN REACH AS HIGH AS 1347 01:14:40,209 --> 01:14:40,309 33%. 1348 01:14:40,375 --> 01:14:42,010 THERE'S A HIGHER RATE OF ACUTE 1349 01:14:42,077 --> 01:14:44,279 LIVER FAILURE IN PREGNANT WOMEN 1350 01:14:44,346 --> 01:14:51,653 AND THE MECHANISMS AREN'T CLEAR. 1351 01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:54,623 CLINICAL AND ANIMAL DATA TO 1352 01:14:54,690 --> 01:14:57,092 SUGGEST HEPATITIS E CAN INFECT 1353 01:14:57,159 --> 01:14:58,527 THE PLACENTA AND CAUSE INJURY 1354 01:14:58,594 --> 01:15:03,599 INCLUDING FIBROSIS AND FIBROSIS 1355 01:15:03,665 --> 01:15:05,167 OF THE CORD AND THERE'S EVIDENCE 1356 01:15:05,234 --> 01:15:09,104 OF VERTICAL TRANSMISSION TO THE 1357 01:15:09,171 --> 01:15:12,474 FETUS WHICH CAN CAUSE SEVERE 1358 01:15:12,541 --> 01:15:15,277 NEONATAL HEPATITIS AND THE 1359 01:15:15,344 --> 01:15:18,547 IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION DURING 1360 01:15:18,614 --> 01:15:19,281 PREGNANCY CAN LEAD TO HIGHER 1361 01:15:19,348 --> 01:15:21,950 VIRAL REPLICATION AND LEAD TO 1362 01:15:22,017 --> 01:15:22,951 WORSE OUTCOMES. 1363 01:15:23,018 --> 01:15:24,553 THE TRUE CAUSE FOR THE WORSE 1364 01:15:24,620 --> 01:15:25,187 DISEASE IN PREGNANT WOMEN NOT 1365 01:15:25,254 --> 01:15:26,488 CLEAR. 1366 01:15:26,555 --> 01:15:29,291 AND THIS IS AN AREA OF ACTIVE 1367 01:15:29,358 --> 01:15:32,961 RESEARCH. 1368 01:15:33,028 --> 01:15:35,931 FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY IT WAS 1369 01:15:35,998 --> 01:15:37,399 LONG THOUGHT OR BELIEVED 1370 01:15:37,466 --> 01:15:41,703 HEPATITIS E WAS A SELF-LIMITING 1371 01:15:41,770 --> 01:15:43,272 HEPATITIS SIMILAR TO HEPATITIS A 1372 01:15:43,338 --> 01:15:45,607 AND IN THE LATE 1980s, CASE 1373 01:15:45,674 --> 01:15:51,546 REPORTS BEGAN TO EMERGE OF VIRUS 1374 01:15:51,613 --> 01:15:53,415 RNA IN DELIVER TRANSPLANT 1375 01:15:53,482 --> 01:15:57,920 RECIPIENTS AND IT'S NOW WELL 1376 01:15:57,986 --> 01:15:59,054 DOCUMENTED HEPATITIS E CAN CAUSE 1377 01:15:59,121 --> 01:16:02,925 A CHRONIC INFECTION BUT OCCURS 1378 01:16:02,991 --> 01:16:05,093 ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY AMONG 1379 01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:06,361 IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PERSONS AND 1380 01:16:06,428 --> 01:16:09,865 SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT 1381 01:16:09,932 --> 01:16:10,999 RECIPIENTS, PATIENTS RECEIVING 1382 01:16:11,066 --> 01:16:12,567 CANCER THERAPY AND HIV INFECTED 1383 01:16:12,634 --> 01:16:13,001 PERSONS. 1384 01:16:13,068 --> 01:16:16,438 THE PREVALENCE IS 1 TO 2% AND 1385 01:16:16,505 --> 01:16:18,273 ONLY BEEN REPORTED WITH GENOTYPE 1386 01:16:18,340 --> 01:16:19,141 3 INFECTION. 1387 01:16:19,207 --> 01:16:21,276 ABOUT 10% OF PATIENTS CAN 1388 01:16:21,343 --> 01:16:23,412 PROGRESS TO CIRRHOSIS AND THE 1389 01:16:23,478 --> 01:16:24,313 SOURCE OF INFECTION IS OFTEN 1390 01:16:24,379 --> 01:16:29,084 UNKNOWN. 1391 01:16:29,151 --> 01:16:30,652 SHOWN HERE IS THE PREVALENCE OF 1392 01:16:30,719 --> 01:16:32,688 HEPATITIS E IN THE SOLID ORGAN 1393 01:16:32,754 --> 01:16:33,755 TRANSPLANT POPULATION. 1394 01:16:33,822 --> 01:16:36,959 IT'S ESTIMATED USING IGG IT'S 1395 01:16:37,025 --> 01:16:39,594 ABOUT 20% AND THAT'S SIMILAR TO 1396 01:16:39,661 --> 01:16:40,095 THE GENERAL POPULATION. 1397 01:16:40,162 --> 01:16:42,331 AND IT VARIES BY THE 1398 01:16:42,397 --> 01:16:44,166 TRANSPLANTED ORGAN BEING HIGHEST 1399 01:16:44,232 --> 01:16:46,201 IN LIVER FOLLOWED BY KIDNEY, 1400 01:16:46,268 --> 01:16:47,903 HEART AND LUNG AND THE RATE OF 1401 01:16:47,970 --> 01:16:51,106 CHRONIC INFECTION IS LOW. 1402 01:16:51,173 --> 01:16:55,577 IT'S ABOUT .5% TO 1.5% AND 1403 01:16:55,644 --> 01:16:58,947 IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE 1404 01:16:59,014 --> 01:17:02,651 RE-INFECTION MAY RE-OCCUR. 1405 01:17:02,718 --> 01:17:03,685 CO-INFECTION WITH HEPATITIS E 1406 01:17:03,752 --> 01:17:08,890 HAS BEEN DESCRIBED NOW. 1407 01:17:08,957 --> 01:17:11,493 FIRST CASE REPORT WAS PUBLISHED 1408 01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:13,095 IN THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL AND 1409 01:17:13,161 --> 01:17:17,666 THE INCIDENTS IN THE POPULATION 1410 01:17:17,733 --> 01:17:22,037 IS LOW FROM 0 TO 9% AND RELATED 1411 01:17:22,104 --> 01:17:25,273 TO GENOTYPE 3 INFECTION. 1412 01:17:25,340 --> 01:17:29,511 A LOW CD4 COUNT IS THE ONLY RISK 1413 01:17:29,578 --> 01:17:30,746 FACTOR IDENTIFIED IN THIS 1414 01:17:30,812 --> 01:17:33,382 POPULATION AND ONE CASE REPORT 1415 01:17:33,448 --> 01:17:38,520 WITH PROGRESSION WITH CIRRHOSIS. 1416 01:17:38,587 --> 01:17:41,690 THIS SHOWS A CARTOON WHICH IS A 1417 01:17:41,757 --> 01:17:45,494 MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM FOR 1418 01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:46,361 PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS 1419 01:17:46,428 --> 01:17:47,429 E INFECTION. 1420 01:17:47,496 --> 01:17:50,465 AS I MENTIONED IN THE VAST 1421 01:17:50,532 --> 01:17:55,137 MAJORITY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH 1422 01:17:55,203 --> 01:17:56,304 ACUTE HEPATITIS E THERE'S GOING 1423 01:17:56,371 --> 01:17:58,974 TO BE SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTION 1424 01:17:59,041 --> 01:18:01,376 WITH CLEARANCE OF THE VIRAL RNA. 1425 01:18:01,443 --> 01:18:02,611 HOWEVER, THERE'S A SMALL 1426 01:18:02,677 --> 01:18:04,646 PERCENTAGE OF PATIENTS WHERE THE 1427 01:18:04,713 --> 01:18:06,381 RNA WILL PERSIST BEYOND SIX 1428 01:18:06,448 --> 01:18:07,916 MONTHS AND THIS IS THE 1429 01:18:07,983 --> 01:18:13,088 DEFINITION OF CHRONIC INFECTION. 1430 01:18:13,155 --> 01:18:21,096 THE FIRST IS APPROACH IF 1431 01:18:21,163 --> 01:18:28,336 RECEIVING IMMUNOEXPRESSIVE -- 1432 01:18:28,403 --> 01:18:36,645 IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE CASES AND CAN 1433 01:18:36,711 --> 01:18:40,215 CLEAR AND IF NOT MEDICATION 1434 01:18:40,282 --> 01:18:42,884 LEADING TO VIRAL CLEARANCE FOR 1435 01:18:42,951 --> 01:18:44,086 THREE-QUARTERS OF PATIENTS AND 1436 01:18:44,152 --> 01:18:47,322 THE REGIMENT IS EMPIRICAL AND WE 1437 01:18:47,389 --> 01:18:50,992 DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OPTIMAL DOSE 1438 01:18:51,059 --> 01:18:55,997 IS FOR TREATING HEPATITIS E JUST 1439 01:18:56,064 --> 01:18:57,532 BECAUSE THE CHRONIC INFECTION IS 1440 01:18:57,599 --> 01:18:58,733 SO RARE IT'S DIFFICULT TO DO 1441 01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:00,969 LARGE CONTROLLED STUDIES. 1442 01:19:01,036 --> 01:19:03,371 IF THE VIRUS PERSISTS AFTER. 1443 01:19:03,438 --> 01:19:08,076 THERE'S TWO OPTIONS, ONE TO 1444 01:19:08,143 --> 01:19:09,811 CONTINUE WITH THE MEDICATION FOR 1445 01:19:09,878 --> 01:19:12,080 AN ADDITIONAL TWO MONTHS OR FOR 1446 01:19:12,147 --> 01:19:16,351 LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS TO 1447 01:19:16,418 --> 01:19:18,620 RECOMMEND PEGINTERFERON AND IT'S 1448 01:19:18,687 --> 01:19:21,790 EFFECTIVE IN 34% OF PATIENTS. 1449 01:19:21,857 --> 01:19:23,792 PEGINTERFERON IS CONTRAINDICATED 1450 01:19:23,859 --> 01:19:26,528 IN OTHER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS 1451 01:19:26,595 --> 01:19:29,097 BECAUSE OF HIGH RISK OF ORGAN 1452 01:19:29,164 --> 01:19:35,937 REJECTION. 1453 01:19:36,004 --> 01:19:46,381 WHAT ABOUT PREVENTION. 1454 01:19:47,816 --> 01:19:55,390 FOR AUTOCHTHONOUS HEPATITIS 1455 01:19:55,457 --> 01:20:01,730 ISOLATION OF ANIMALS AND 1456 01:20:01,796 --> 01:20:03,965 MONITORING WASTE RUNOFF BUT NOT 1457 01:20:04,032 --> 01:20:04,733 WIDELY ADOPTED AND FOR 1458 01:20:04,799 --> 01:20:06,535 INDIVIDUALS THE ONE SINGLE THING 1459 01:20:06,601 --> 01:20:11,072 YOU CAN DO TO TRY TO PREVENT 1460 01:20:11,139 --> 01:20:13,975 HEPATITIS E INFECTION IS AVOID 1461 01:20:14,042 --> 01:20:19,881 CONSUMPTION OF UNDER COOKED MEAT 1462 01:20:19,948 --> 01:20:21,716 PARTICULARLY PORK OR GAME AND IT 1463 01:20:21,783 --> 01:20:25,620 SHOULD BE HEATED TO 160 DEGREES 1464 01:20:25,687 --> 01:20:28,657 FOR AT LATEST 20 MINUTES BEFORE 1465 01:20:28,723 --> 01:20:32,827 CONSUMPTION AND ONE SHOULD AVOID 1466 01:20:32,894 --> 01:20:38,200 CONSUMPTION OF RAW SHELLFISH 1467 01:20:38,266 --> 01:20:41,102 ESPECIALLY IF IMMUNOCOMPROMISED 1468 01:20:41,169 --> 01:20:43,972 AND THIS HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN 1469 01:20:44,039 --> 01:20:47,976 A FEW WESTERN COUNTRIES. 1470 01:20:48,043 --> 01:20:49,444 THE PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS E 1471 01:20:49,511 --> 01:20:53,882 RNA RANGES THERE 1 TO 4,000 1472 01:20:53,949 --> 01:20:56,484 DONORS AND 11 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 1473 01:20:56,551 --> 01:20:58,720 RECOMMEND MINI POOL SCREENING 1474 01:20:58,787 --> 01:21:02,324 FOR HEPATITIS E. 1475 01:21:02,390 --> 01:21:02,657 HO 1476 01:21:02,724 --> 01:21:03,992 HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT YET ADOPTED 1477 01:21:04,059 --> 01:21:04,526 IN THE UNITED STATES. 1478 01:21:04,593 --> 01:21:12,267 ONE STUDY CONDUCTED HERE AT THE 1479 01:21:12,334 --> 01:21:18,773 NIH HARVEY ALTER SCREENED FOR 1480 01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:19,941 HEPATITIS E AND FOUND A 1481 01:21:20,008 --> 01:21:22,210 PREVALENCE OF 22% CORRESPONDING 1482 01:21:22,277 --> 01:21:25,313 TO THE PREVALENCE OF HEPATITIS E 1483 01:21:25,380 --> 01:21:26,214 IN THE GENERAL U.S. POPULATION 1484 01:21:26,281 --> 01:21:29,084 AT THE TIME AND NONE WERE FOUND 1485 01:21:29,150 --> 01:21:32,420 TO BE HEPATITIS E RNA BUT 1486 01:21:32,487 --> 01:21:35,190 THERE'S DEBATE GOING ON WHETHER 1487 01:21:35,257 --> 01:21:39,127 THE U.S. SHOULD ADOPT SCREENING 1488 01:21:39,194 --> 01:21:40,729 FOR HEPATITIS E BUT PART OF THE 1489 01:21:40,795 --> 01:21:43,365 REASON IT HASN'T YET IS BECAUSE 1490 01:21:43,431 --> 01:21:46,268 OF THE PRESUMED LOW PREVALENCE 1491 01:21:46,334 --> 01:21:50,939 OF HEPATITIS E IN THE U.S. 1492 01:21:51,006 --> 01:21:54,776 FOR EPIDEMIC HEPATITIS E TO 1493 01:21:54,843 --> 01:21:57,212 IMPROVE SANITATION AND AVOID 1494 01:21:57,279 --> 01:21:59,714 CONTAMINATED WATER WE NOW HAVE A 1495 01:21:59,781 --> 01:22:01,016 SAFE VACCINE AVAILABLE. 1496 01:22:01,082 --> 01:22:03,585 THERE'S THREE RECOMBINANT 1497 01:22:03,652 --> 01:22:06,721 HEPATITIS E VACCINES DEVELOPED. 1498 01:22:06,788 --> 01:22:11,726 ALL DERIVED FROM THE PROTEIN AND 1499 01:22:11,793 --> 01:22:14,229 CLINICAL EFFICACY HAS BEEN 1500 01:22:14,296 --> 01:22:15,930 DEMONSTRATED WITH ALL THREE 1501 01:22:15,997 --> 01:22:16,197 PRODUCTS. 1502 01:22:16,264 --> 01:22:19,567 THE FIRST WAS CO-JOINTLY 1503 01:22:19,634 --> 01:22:30,178 DEVELOPED BY GLAXOSMITHKLINE AND 1504 01:22:35,150 --> 01:22:36,618 NIAID AND THE VACCINE DOESN'T GO 1505 01:22:36,685 --> 01:22:38,019 FURTHER BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC 1506 01:22:38,086 --> 01:22:40,822 CONSIDERATIONS AND ANOTHER WAS A 1507 01:22:40,889 --> 01:22:42,157 VACCINE DEVELOPED IN CHINA AND 1508 01:22:42,223 --> 01:22:45,827 DEMONSTRATED EFFICACY IN A PHASE 1509 01:22:45,894 --> 01:22:48,096 1 TRIAL BUT DIDN'T MOVE FORWARD 1510 01:22:48,163 --> 01:22:52,667 BECAUSE OF ECONOMIC 1511 01:22:52,734 --> 01:22:54,903 CONSIDERATIONS AND THE THIRD 1512 01:22:54,969 --> 01:22:58,473 VACCINE HEV-239 WAS DEMONSTRATE 1513 01:22:58,540 --> 01:23:01,076 AND CURRENTLY LICENSED IN CHINA 1514 01:23:01,142 --> 01:23:03,144 AND PAKISTAN. 1515 01:23:03,211 --> 01:23:04,612 THIS IS A DATA FROM THE 1516 01:23:04,679 --> 01:23:09,250 RANDOMIZED TRIAL THAT LED TO THE 1517 01:23:09,317 --> 01:23:10,485 APPROVAL OF THIS VACCINE THE 1518 01:23:10,552 --> 01:23:15,390 VACCINE WAS TESTED IN OVER 100 1519 01:23:15,457 --> 01:23:19,227 ADULTS AND PATIENT RANDOMIZED TO 1520 01:23:19,294 --> 01:23:23,732 RECEIVE THE MEDICATION OR 1521 01:23:23,798 --> 01:23:25,667 PLACEBO AND HEPATITIS B VIRUS 1522 01:23:25,734 --> 01:23:29,738 AND THE PRIMARY END POINT WAS 1523 01:23:29,804 --> 01:23:31,773 AFTER THE LAST DOSE OF THE 1524 01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:36,945 VACCINE IN THE PROTOCOL 1525 01:23:37,011 --> 01:23:43,284 ANALYSIS, 15 CASES OF HEPATITIS 1526 01:23:43,351 --> 01:23:46,388 C OCCURRED AND THE INTENTION TO 1527 01:23:46,454 --> 01:23:49,124 TREAT ANALYSIS THERE WERE 22 1528 01:23:49,190 --> 01:23:52,494 CASES AND 21 OCCURRED IN THE 1529 01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:53,995 PLACEBO GROUP COMPARED TO ONE IN 1530 01:23:54,062 --> 01:23:57,098 THE VACCINE GROUP FOR A VACCINE 1531 01:23:57,165 --> 01:24:03,037 EFFICACY OF 95%. 1532 01:24:03,104 --> 01:24:05,607 THIS FOLLOW UP WAS EXTENDED FOR 1533 01:24:05,673 --> 01:24:07,609 4.5 YEARS AND 60 CASES OF 1534 01:24:07,675 --> 01:24:09,711 HEPATITIS E WERE IDENTIFIED. 1535 01:24:09,778 --> 01:24:10,912 SEVEN IN THE VACCINE GROUP AND 1536 01:24:10,979 --> 01:24:14,449 53 IN THE CONTROL GROUP FOR AN 1537 01:24:14,516 --> 01:24:17,519 OVER ALL VACCINE EFFICACY OF 87% 1538 01:24:17,585 --> 01:24:21,656 OVER THE 4.5 YEAR FOLLOW UP. 1539 01:24:21,723 --> 01:24:24,092 AND 87% OF THOSE WHO RECEIVED 1540 01:24:24,159 --> 01:24:26,227 THREE DOSES OF THE VACCINE 1541 01:24:26,294 --> 01:24:28,229 MAINTAINED ANTIBODY UP TO 4.5 1542 01:24:28,296 --> 01:24:29,197 YEARS LATER INDICATING THE 1543 01:24:29,264 --> 01:24:36,438 VACCINE IS VERY DURABLE. 1544 01:24:36,504 --> 01:24:41,709 ONE WOULD ASK WHY ISN'T THE 1545 01:24:41,776 --> 01:24:44,112 VACCINE BEING USE MORE 1546 01:24:44,179 --> 01:24:44,446 WIDESPREAD. 1547 01:24:44,512 --> 01:24:46,047 THERE'S A NUMBER OF BARRIERS TO 1548 01:24:46,114 --> 01:24:47,115 VACCINE USE. 1549 01:24:47,182 --> 01:24:50,084 FIRST IS THE LIMITED AWARENESS 1550 01:24:50,151 --> 01:24:52,554 REGARDING HEPATITIS E AND THE 1551 01:24:52,620 --> 01:24:54,088 AVAILABLE VACCINE AMONG 1552 01:24:54,155 --> 01:24:55,690 REGULATORS, POLICY MAKERS AND 1553 01:24:55,757 --> 01:24:57,559 COMMUNITIES THAT ARE PRONE TO 1554 01:24:57,625 --> 01:25:01,696 LARGE OUTBREAKS. 1555 01:25:01,763 --> 01:25:03,398 THERE'S ALSO LIMITED DATA ON 1556 01:25:03,465 --> 01:25:08,470 VACCINE EFFICACY ONLY ONE STUDY 1557 01:25:08,536 --> 01:25:13,107 FROM AN OUTBREAK DATA AND 1558 01:25:13,174 --> 01:25:14,876 THERE'S LIMITED INFORMATION ON 1559 01:25:14,943 --> 01:25:17,712 PREGNANT WOMEN AND YOUNGER AGE 1560 01:25:17,779 --> 01:25:19,280 GROUPS AND THE LAST THREE 1561 01:25:19,347 --> 01:25:21,416 FACTORS HAVE BEEN THE MAJOR 1562 01:25:21,483 --> 01:25:24,686 REASONS W.H.O. HASN'T BEEN A 1563 01:25:24,752 --> 01:25:26,387 GREATER PROPONENT OF 1564 01:25:26,454 --> 01:25:27,789 RECOMMENDING MORE WIDESPREAD USE 1565 01:25:27,856 --> 01:25:30,058 OF THE VACCINE AND THERE'S 1566 01:25:30,124 --> 01:25:31,359 UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE VACCINE 1567 01:25:31,426 --> 01:25:32,327 SUPPLY. 1568 01:25:32,393 --> 01:25:37,732 TO SUMMARIZE FOR YOU IN RESOURCE 1569 01:25:37,799 --> 01:25:40,768 LIMITED AREAS HEPATITIS E IS 1570 01:25:40,835 --> 01:25:43,471 PRIMARILY WATERBORNE WITH 1571 01:25:43,538 --> 01:25:46,441 HEPATITIS RELATED TO INFECTION 1572 01:25:46,508 --> 01:25:49,544 WITH PHENOTYPES 1 AND 2 AND IN 1573 01:25:49,611 --> 01:25:50,845 HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES IT'S 1574 01:25:50,912 --> 01:25:52,447 CONSIDERED A ZOONOTIC INFECTION 1575 01:25:52,514 --> 01:25:55,550 CAUSING ACUTE AND CHRONIC 1576 01:25:55,617 --> 01:25:57,385 INFECTION AND CHRONIC INFECTION 1577 01:25:57,452 --> 01:26:00,655 IS ONLY ASSOCIATED WITH GENOTYPE 1578 01:26:00,722 --> 01:26:02,657 3 NEVER 1 OR 2. 1579 01:26:02,724 --> 01:26:04,926 AND A WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW 1580 01:26:04,993 --> 01:26:09,998 UNRESOLVED ISSUES I THINK ARE 1581 01:26:10,064 --> 01:26:15,904 AREAS FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION 1582 01:26:15,970 --> 01:26:17,405 WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN THE 1583 01:26:17,472 --> 01:26:20,942 HIGH MORTALITY IN PREGNANT WOMEN 1584 01:26:21,009 --> 01:26:24,212 OR WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE 1585 01:26:24,279 --> 01:26:28,216 MANIFESTATIONS OF GENOTYPE 3 AND 1586 01:26:28,283 --> 01:26:30,685 DON'T KNOW THE OPTIMAL THERAPY 1587 01:26:30,752 --> 01:26:33,121 AND MORE EFFECTIVE THERAPIES 1588 01:26:33,187 --> 01:26:35,189 WOULD BE DESIRABLE. 1589 01:26:35,256 --> 01:26:36,491 THERE'S DEBATE GOING ON WHETHER 1590 01:26:36,558 --> 01:26:39,727 THE BLOOD SUPPLY SHOULD BE 1591 01:26:39,794 --> 01:26:40,028 SCREENED. 1592 01:26:40,094 --> 01:26:42,764 AND THIS PARTLY RELATED TO WHAT 1593 01:26:42,830 --> 01:26:44,165 THE PREVALENCE IS IN YOUR 1594 01:26:44,232 --> 01:26:46,734 PARTICULAR REGION. 1595 01:26:46,801 --> 01:26:48,603 WE NEED BETTER DIAGNOSTIC TESTS 1596 01:26:48,670 --> 01:26:51,139 AS HIGHLIGHTED AND NEEDS TO BE 1597 01:26:51,205 --> 01:26:53,241 MORE STUDIES OF VACCINE EFFICACY 1598 01:26:53,308 --> 01:26:55,143 IN OTHER REGIONS AND OTHER 1599 01:26:55,209 --> 01:26:56,277 POPULATIONS AN TO DETERMINE 1600 01:26:56,344 --> 01:26:58,513 WHETHER THERE'S CROSS-PROTECTION 1601 01:26:58,580 --> 01:26:59,514 BETWEEN THE VACCINE OR 1602 01:26:59,581 --> 01:26:59,814 GENOTYPES. 1603 01:26:59,881 --> 01:27:01,249 SO I THINK I'LL STOP IT THERE 1604 01:27:01,316 --> 01:27:03,217 AND HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. 1605 01:27:03,284 --> 01:27:03,785 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR 1606 01:27:03,851 --> 01:27:11,593 ATTENTION. 1607 01:27:11,659 --> 01:27:14,462 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1608 01:27:14,529 --> 01:27:19,601 THERE'S A MICROPHONE IN THE 1609 01:27:19,667 --> 01:27:29,877 AISLE THERE. 1610 01:27:58,373 --> 01:27:59,707 BASED ON YOUR RESEARCH WHAT 1611 01:27:59,774 --> 01:28:00,608 GUIDELINES WOULD YOU RECOMMEND 1612 01:28:00,675 --> 01:28:01,709 FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR 1613 01:28:01,776 --> 01:28:06,648 TESTING AND VACCINATION? 1614 01:28:06,714 --> 01:28:09,484 >> I THINK IT'S RELATIVELY 1615 01:28:09,550 --> 01:28:09,851 STRAIGHTFORWARD. 1616 01:28:09,917 --> 01:28:12,353 TO REPEAT THE QUESTION, WHAT GID 1617 01:28:12,420 --> 01:28:14,055 LINES WOULD BE RECOMMENDED IF 1618 01:28:14,122 --> 01:28:18,292 THE CURRENT GUIDELINES ARE 1619 01:28:18,359 --> 01:28:18,660 SUBOPTIMAL. 1620 01:28:18,726 --> 01:28:20,428 EVERYONE IN HEPATITIS B SHOULD 1621 01:28:20,495 --> 01:28:25,099 BE CHECKED FOR HEPATITIS E ONCE 1622 01:28:25,166 --> 01:28:26,000 AND VACCINATION HEPATITIS B 1623 01:28:26,067 --> 01:28:29,103 SHOULD BE UNIVERSAL. 1624 01:28:29,170 --> 01:28:38,212 VERY EASY. 1625 01:28:38,279 --> 01:28:42,316 >> IT'S ALSO BEEN ASKED WHETHER 1626 01:28:42,383 --> 01:28:47,455 SAMPLES OF THE BLOOD BANK FROM 1627 01:28:47,522 --> 01:28:50,625 YEARS GONE BY HAVE BEEN TESTED 1628 01:28:50,692 --> 01:28:56,130 TO GIVE SOME CLUE AS TO HOW LONG 1629 01:28:56,197 --> 01:28:58,599 THEY'VE BEEN IN THE CIRCULATION 1630 01:28:58,666 --> 01:29:03,905 AND NOT PREVIOUSLY RECOGNIZED. 1631 01:29:03,971 --> 01:29:07,809 DO YOU WANT TO COMMENT? 1632 01:29:07,875 --> 01:29:11,079 >> I MENTIONED HOW HARVEY ALTER 1633 01:29:11,145 --> 01:29:13,081 LOOKED AT 1,000 BLOOD DONOR 1634 01:29:13,147 --> 01:29:17,085 SAMPLES AND THE PREVALENCE OF 1635 01:29:17,151 --> 01:29:23,591 ANTIBODY TO HEPATITIS B, IGG WAS 1636 01:29:23,658 --> 01:29:27,595 20% BUT NONE WERE FOUND TO BE 1637 01:29:27,662 --> 01:29:31,099 HEPATITIS B RNA AND THAT FIGURE 1638 01:29:31,165 --> 01:29:33,534 RESEMBLES THE PREVALENCE IN THE 1639 01:29:33,601 --> 01:29:35,236 U.S. GENERAL POPULATION BASED ON 1640 01:29:35,303 --> 01:29:37,071 THE NHANES STUDY DONE IN 2010 1641 01:29:37,138 --> 01:29:44,946 AROUND THE SAME TIME. 1642 01:29:45,012 --> 01:29:47,615 >> TO ADDRESS THE HEPATITIS B IN 1643 01:29:47,682 --> 01:29:49,917 TERMS OF SUBTEXT, HOW LONG HAS 1644 01:29:49,984 --> 01:29:51,753 IT BEEN IN CIRCULATION? 1645 01:29:51,819 --> 01:29:52,520 IT'S INTERESTING. 1646 01:29:52,587 --> 01:29:56,424 IF YOU'RE GOING TO ISOLATED 1647 01:29:56,491 --> 01:29:58,326 POPULATIONS IN THE AMAZON AND 1648 01:29:58,392 --> 01:30:00,428 GLOBALLY, POPULATIONS THAT HAVE 1649 01:30:00,495 --> 01:30:02,463 HAD NO CONTACT FOR THOUSANDS OF 1650 01:30:02,530 --> 01:30:05,767 YEARS WITH OTHER POPULATIONS, 1651 01:30:05,833 --> 01:30:11,372 YOU FIND HEPATITIS B AND D. 1652 01:30:11,439 --> 01:30:12,940 SO HEPATITIS B HAS BEEN AROUND 1653 01:30:13,007 --> 01:30:14,776 AS LONG AS HUMANS HAVE AND 1654 01:30:14,842 --> 01:30:17,311 HEPATITIS D GOES BACK PRETTY 1655 01:30:17,378 --> 01:30:23,885 FAR. 1656 01:30:23,951 --> 01:30:26,621 >> WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT 1657 01:30:26,687 --> 01:30:27,455 RETENTION RATES -- 1658 01:30:27,522 --> 01:30:30,324 >> WELL, I WANTED TO ASK A 1659 01:30:30,391 --> 01:30:33,127 COUPLE QUESTIONS. 1660 01:30:33,194 --> 01:30:35,596 FIRST, TO BOTH PRESENTERS, WHAT 1661 01:30:35,663 --> 01:30:40,768 IS YOUR SPECULATION WITH REGARD 1662 01:30:40,835 --> 01:30:43,971 TO ARE THERE OTHER ISSUES NOW 1663 01:30:44,038 --> 01:30:46,207 GONE TO BE DISCOVERED AND WE'VE 1664 01:30:46,274 --> 01:30:47,208 GONE THROUGH FIVE LETTERS OF THE 1665 01:30:47,275 --> 01:30:48,810 ALPHABET AND THE SIXTH IS 1666 01:30:48,876 --> 01:30:59,420 PERHAPS BECKONING FOR DISCOVERY. 1667 01:31:04,425 --> 01:31:08,830 AND WHAT HAPPENED TO BERIANI WHO 1668 01:31:08,896 --> 01:31:13,100 DEMONSTRATE THE LIKELY 1669 01:31:13,167 --> 01:31:14,802 INFECTIOUS AGENT FOR HEPATITIS 1670 01:31:14,869 --> 01:31:14,936 D. 1671 01:31:15,002 --> 01:31:17,071 I HOPE HE SURVIVED. 1672 01:31:17,138 --> 01:31:21,108 >> HE SURVIVED. 1673 01:31:21,175 --> 01:31:24,879 HE WAS ACTUALLY QUITE SICK BUT 1674 01:31:24,946 --> 01:31:35,456 HAD A SELF-LIMITING HEPATITIS. 1675 01:31:36,123 --> 01:31:37,725 >> HE LOVED TELLING THE STORY 1676 01:31:37,792 --> 01:31:40,661 AND ONE OF THE THINGS HE TOLD US 1677 01:31:40,728 --> 01:31:42,230 WAS HE CHOSE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM 1678 01:31:42,296 --> 01:31:45,700 SO HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO SEE WHAT 1679 01:31:45,766 --> 01:31:47,535 HE WAS EATING AND HE WAS -- 1680 01:31:47,602 --> 01:31:51,072 THERE WERE AMUSING THINGS ABOUT 1681 01:31:51,138 --> 01:31:51,339 HIM. 1682 01:31:51,405 --> 01:31:53,608 FOR MANY REASONS HE WAS A HUGE 1683 01:31:53,674 --> 01:31:57,378 GUY WITH A LOT OF CHARISMA AND 1684 01:31:57,445 --> 01:31:58,746 PERSONALITY. 1685 01:31:58,813 --> 01:32:00,047 DO YOU WANT IT TAKE THE NEXT 1686 01:32:00,114 --> 01:32:04,518 QUESTION? 1687 01:32:04,585 --> 01:32:13,394 >> THE FIRST QUESTION WAS WERE 1688 01:32:13,461 --> 01:32:15,663 THERE OTHER VIRUSES WAITING TO 1689 01:32:15,730 --> 01:32:18,165 BE DISCOVERED AND THERE IS 1690 01:32:18,232 --> 01:32:23,504 HEPATITIS G AND NONE 1691 01:32:23,571 --> 01:32:24,906 CONVINCINGLY SHOWN TO BE RELATED 1692 01:32:24,972 --> 01:32:27,441 TO TRANSFUSION RELATED 1693 01:32:27,508 --> 01:32:28,009 HEPATITIS. 1694 01:32:28,075 --> 01:32:29,076 THEY JUST OCCUR IN THE 1695 01:32:29,143 --> 01:32:32,046 POPULATION BUT PROBABLY DON'T 1696 01:32:32,113 --> 01:32:35,850 CAUSE ANY DISEASE. 1697 01:32:35,917 --> 01:32:40,154 AS A TESTAMENT THE TRANSFUSION 1698 01:32:40,221 --> 01:32:42,256 OF HEPATITIS IS EXCEEDINGLY RARE 1699 01:32:42,323 --> 01:32:45,092 AND IF THERE'S VIRUSES TO BE 1700 01:32:45,159 --> 01:32:46,694 IDENTIFIED THEY WON'T BE A 1701 01:32:46,761 --> 01:32:47,962 SIGNIFICANT COURSE FOR 1702 01:32:48,029 --> 01:32:50,364 TRANSFUSION RELATED HEPATITIS. 1703 01:32:50,431 --> 01:32:53,734 MAYBE THEO WANTS TO ADD. 1704 01:32:53,801 --> 01:32:56,604 >> THERE WAS HEPATITIS F BUT IT 1705 01:32:56,671 --> 01:32:58,606 TURNED OUT NOT TO BE TRUE. 1706 01:32:58,673 --> 01:33:00,875 >> THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY NEXT 1707 01:33:00,942 --> 01:33:01,142 QUESTION. 1708 01:33:01,208 --> 01:33:03,311 >> IT'S BY THE FRENCH AND TURNED 1709 01:33:03,377 --> 01:33:09,016 OUT NOT TO BE THE CASE AND THE 1710 01:33:09,083 --> 01:33:11,018 VARIOUS WAS TRANSMITTED FROM 1711 01:33:11,085 --> 01:33:14,121 GENERAL SURGEON BUT IT WAS A 1712 01:33:14,188 --> 01:33:20,294 PRIMATE VIRUS GBV. 1713 01:33:20,361 --> 01:33:23,764 I AGREE WITH MARC BUT THERE'S 1714 01:33:23,831 --> 01:33:25,533 ONE PIECE OF DATA WHICH LOOKED 1715 01:33:25,599 --> 01:33:31,339 AT AN OUTBREAK ON AN ISLAND OFF 1716 01:33:31,405 --> 01:33:34,175 THE COAST OF INDIA COULD NOT 1717 01:33:34,241 --> 01:33:37,979 IDENTIFY THE NON-HEPATITIS VIRUS 1718 01:33:38,045 --> 01:33:41,015 AND SEEMED TO SPREAD CONSISTENT 1719 01:33:41,082 --> 01:33:42,450 WITH THE HEPATITIS VIRUS AND 1720 01:33:42,516 --> 01:33:44,652 MAYBE SOME ARE LOOKING TO BE 1721 01:33:44,719 --> 01:33:45,119 DISCOVERED. 1722 01:33:45,186 --> 01:33:48,155 >> MAYBE SOMEONE IN THE FUTURE. 1723 01:33:48,222 --> 01:33:49,256 OR THE ROOM. 1724 01:33:49,323 --> 01:33:51,926 YOU SAID THE F WAS FROM A FRENCH 1725 01:33:51,993 --> 01:33:53,928 INVESTIGATOR AND THE G A GERMAN. 1726 01:33:53,995 --> 01:33:57,098 >> YES. 1727 01:33:57,164 --> 01:34:07,541 >> THAT'S INTERESTING. 1728 01:34:13,948 --> 01:34:16,083 >> WE STILL DON'T KNOW THE CAUSE 1729 01:34:16,150 --> 01:34:17,451 OF HEPATITIS. 1730 01:34:17,518 --> 01:34:20,388 >> THERE WAS AN OUTBREAK OF 1731 01:34:20,454 --> 01:34:21,822 HEPATITIS TWO YEARS AGO THAT 1732 01:34:21,889 --> 01:34:22,990 OCCURRED PRIMARILY IN CHILDREN 1733 01:34:23,057 --> 01:34:25,860 AND THERE WERE TWO CHARGE 1734 01:34:25,926 --> 01:34:27,395 COHORTS DESCRIBED. 1735 01:34:27,461 --> 01:34:28,429 BOTH FROM BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 1736 01:34:28,496 --> 01:34:38,706 AND ENGLAND. 1737 01:34:55,623 --> 01:34:57,358 THERE ARE MORE CASES BEING 1738 01:34:57,425 --> 01:34:58,059 IDENTIFIED. 1739 01:34:58,125 --> 01:35:06,200 WE HAVE A QUESTION WITH OTHER 1740 01:35:06,267 --> 01:35:08,803 HEPATOVIRUSES HAVE THE CAPACITY 1741 01:35:08,869 --> 01:35:19,246 TO ACCEPT HEPATITIS D. 1742 01:35:24,552 --> 01:35:27,321 >> ARE THERE OTHER VIRUSES THAT 1743 01:35:27,388 --> 01:35:29,924 CAN TRANSMIT HEPATITIS D. 1744 01:35:29,990 --> 01:35:31,659 IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE THE CASE 1745 01:35:31,725 --> 01:35:36,263 AND THERE IS A CASE LOOKING AT 1746 01:35:36,330 --> 01:35:46,407 SC 1747 01:35:46,674 --> 01:35:46,974 SCHOGREN'S SYNDROME. 1748 01:35:47,041 --> 01:35:47,741 >> WE HAVE A QUESTION AS TO WHAT 1749 01:35:47,808 --> 01:35:50,344 DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE MUTATION 1750 01:35:50,411 --> 01:35:58,786 RATE OF THESE VIRUSES? 1751 01:35:58,853 --> 01:36:01,822 >> IT HAS A ROD-LIKE STRUCTURE. 1752 01:36:01,889 --> 01:36:05,826 IT'S ALMOST LIKE A DNA MOLECULE 1753 01:36:05,893 --> 01:36:08,896 THOUGH IT'S RNA AND THERE'S 1754 01:36:08,963 --> 01:36:10,564 EXTENSIVE BASE PAIRING AND IF 1755 01:36:10,631 --> 01:36:12,633 THERE IS ONE THAT NEEDS TO BE 1756 01:36:12,700 --> 01:36:15,870 COMPENSATED ON THE OTHER SIDE, 1757 01:36:15,936 --> 01:36:17,037 THERE ARE DIFFERENT GENOTYPES 1758 01:36:17,104 --> 01:36:19,173 AND IT'S AN RNA VIRUS AND IT'S 1759 01:36:19,240 --> 01:36:21,275 VERY LIMITED. 1760 01:36:21,342 --> 01:36:23,377 IT'S NOTHING LIKE HEPATITIS C. 1761 01:36:23,444 --> 01:36:26,113 >> SAME FOR HEPATITIS C AS AN 1762 01:36:26,180 --> 01:36:29,083 RNA VIRUS ONE WOULD EXPECT 1763 01:36:29,150 --> 01:36:31,652 DIFFERENT MUTATIONS ARE PRODUCED 1764 01:36:31,719 --> 01:36:35,623 DURING REPLICATION AND THERE ARE 1765 01:36:35,689 --> 01:36:37,758 SPECIES BUT THERE'S ESSENTIALLY 1766 01:36:37,825 --> 01:36:39,627 FOUR MAJOR GENOTYPES, 1 THROUGH 1767 01:36:39,693 --> 01:36:39,894 4. 1768 01:36:39,960 --> 01:36:42,062 I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY NEW 1769 01:36:42,129 --> 01:36:45,065 EMERGING GENOTYPES THAT HAVE 1770 01:36:45,132 --> 01:36:46,066 BEEN IDENTIFIED. 1771 01:36:46,133 --> 01:36:47,468 OR DIFFERENT DISEASES CAUSED BY 1772 01:36:47,535 --> 01:36:57,778 SUB VARIANTS. 1773 01:37:03,217 --> 01:37:06,787 >> IS THERE A MODE OF ENTRY INTO 1774 01:37:06,854 --> 01:37:10,457 THOSE CELLS SIMILAR TO THE 1775 01:37:10,524 --> 01:37:10,958 TRANSPORTER? 1776 01:37:11,025 --> 01:37:12,193 IS THAT KNOWN? 1777 01:37:12,259 --> 01:37:15,196 >> YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT HEPATITIS 1778 01:37:15,262 --> 01:37:20,601 B ENTERING GROUND SQUIRRELS OR 1779 01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:21,068 HERONS? 1780 01:37:21,135 --> 01:37:23,204 IT'S THE BILE SALT TO ACID 1781 01:37:23,270 --> 01:37:27,474 TRANSPORTER AND YOU'RE THE BILE 1782 01:37:27,541 --> 01:37:29,710 EXPERT, DR. ARIAS IS, FOR THOSE 1783 01:37:29,777 --> 01:37:33,781 WHO DON'T KNOW AMONGST OTHER 1784 01:37:33,847 --> 01:37:36,383 THINGS AND THEY FOUND FANTASTIC 1785 01:37:36,450 --> 01:37:37,685 STUDIES FROM THE SAN DIEGO ZOO 1786 01:37:37,751 --> 01:37:42,756 LOOKING AT BILE IN MULTIPLE 1787 01:37:42,823 --> 01:37:46,026 SPECIES SO, YES. 1788 01:37:46,093 --> 01:37:46,660 >> AND FOR HEPATITIS E IS THAT 1789 01:37:46,727 --> 01:37:51,865 SIMILAR? 1790 01:37:51,932 --> 01:37:53,734 >> WE DON'T YET WHAT THE 1791 01:37:53,801 --> 01:37:56,103 RECEPTOR IS FOR HEPATITIS E. 1792 01:37:56,170 --> 01:38:03,811 THAT'S YET TO BE IDENTIFIED. 1793 01:38:03,877 --> 01:38:05,412 ONE THING I'D MENTION TO 1794 01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:08,382 COMPLEMENT THEO'S ANSWER IS THE 1795 01:38:08,449 --> 01:38:13,087 TRANSPORTING POLY PEPTIDE IS 1796 01:38:13,153 --> 01:38:15,055 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TROPISM OF 1797 01:38:15,122 --> 01:38:20,094 HEPATITIS B THAT'S WHY IT'S ONLY 1798 01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:25,099 SIGN APES AND HUMANS. 1799 01:38:25,165 --> 01:38:28,102 >> WE HAVE A QUESTION WHETHER -- 1800 01:38:28,168 --> 01:38:29,536 >> NOT THE HUMAN VIRUS. 1801 01:38:29,603 --> 01:38:31,505 >> YES, SORRY. 1802 01:38:31,572 --> 01:38:33,974 >> ARE EITHER OF THESE VIRUSES 1803 01:38:34,041 --> 01:38:42,516 SECRETED IN HUMAN MILK? 1804 01:38:42,583 --> 01:38:46,186 >> I'M NOT AWARE OF HEPATITIS E 1805 01:38:46,253 --> 01:38:49,023 BEING SECRETED IN HUMAN MILK. 1806 01:38:49,089 --> 01:38:50,791 THERE WAS A PAPER PUBLISHED LAST 1807 01:38:50,858 --> 01:38:55,296 YEAR SAYING IT'S SECRETED IN 1808 01:38:55,362 --> 01:38:56,730 URINE AND URINE MAY BE 1809 01:38:56,797 --> 01:38:58,565 CONCENTRATED THERE SO DETECTION 1810 01:38:58,632 --> 01:39:00,901 RATES MAY BE HIGHER IN URINE 1811 01:39:00,968 --> 01:39:03,137 THAN IN STOOL OR SERUM BUT I'M 1812 01:39:03,203 --> 01:39:05,706 NOT AWARE OF STUDIES LOOKING AT 1813 01:39:05,773 --> 01:39:12,646 WHETHER IT'S TRANSMITTED IN MOO 1814 01:39:12,713 --> 01:39:15,482 -- MATERNAL MILK. 1815 01:39:15,549 --> 01:39:16,784 >> IT'S NOT THOUGHT TO BE 1816 01:39:16,850 --> 01:39:19,320 SIGNIFICANT AND INFANTS ARE 1817 01:39:19,386 --> 01:39:21,422 SCREENED AND VACCINATED IN THE 1818 01:39:21,488 --> 01:39:31,231 WEST. 1819 01:39:31,298 --> 01:39:34,535 >> THIS IS THE LAST QUESTION AND 1820 01:39:34,601 --> 01:39:43,644 WHAT THE QUESTIONER IS ASKING IS 1821 01:39:43,711 --> 01:39:45,813 BOTH HEPATITIS D AND E WERE 1822 01:39:45,879 --> 01:39:49,083 BASICALLY DISCOVERED BECAUSE OF 1823 01:39:49,149 --> 01:39:52,353 PATIENTS WHO WERE SICK WITH 1824 01:39:52,419 --> 01:39:55,622 HEPATITIS AND IN THE CASE OF E, 1825 01:39:55,689 --> 01:39:57,324 DID NOT HAVE ANY OF THE KNOWN 1826 01:39:57,391 --> 01:40:00,427 VIRUSES AT THE TIME SO THE 1827 01:40:00,494 --> 01:40:02,763 QUESTIONER IS ASKING WHETHER IT 1828 01:40:02,830 --> 01:40:07,434 IS LIKELY THAT THERE ARE OTHER 1829 01:40:07,501 --> 01:40:18,045 HEPATITIS VIRUSES OUT THERE AND 1830 01:40:21,348 --> 01:40:25,552 ARE THERE WAYS OF ANTICIPATING 1831 01:40:25,619 --> 01:40:30,858 THE PRESENCE AND IF THEY'RE 1832 01:40:30,924 --> 01:40:32,693 CAPABLE OF CAUSING DISEASE. 1833 01:40:32,760 --> 01:40:36,597 ARE THERE EFFORTS TO ANTICIPATE 1834 01:40:36,663 --> 01:40:40,300 THE POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL 1835 01:40:40,367 --> 01:40:46,640 INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS VIRUSS? 1836 01:40:46,707 --> 01:40:49,076 -- VIRUSES? 1837 01:40:49,143 --> 01:40:51,345 >> WE THOUGHT FOR A LONG TIME WE 1838 01:40:51,412 --> 01:40:52,780 WERE DONE AND THEN COVID CAME 1839 01:40:52,846 --> 01:40:54,381 ALONG AND TAUGHT US THERE ARE 1840 01:40:54,448 --> 01:40:57,618 OTHER VIRUSES IN OTHER PLACES. 1841 01:40:57,684 --> 01:41:02,122 SO HIV IS A SIMILAR STORY. 1842 01:41:02,189 --> 01:41:04,158 SO, I THINK WITH THE WAY THINGS 1843 01:41:04,224 --> 01:41:07,561 ARE RIGHT NOW AS WE SAID 1844 01:41:07,628 --> 01:41:11,098 PREVIOUSLY THERE'S NO OTHER 1845 01:41:11,165 --> 01:41:12,966 PREVIOUS FECAL OR TRANSFUSION 1846 01:41:13,033 --> 01:41:14,535 TRANSMITTED VIRUS BUT THE 1847 01:41:14,601 --> 01:41:16,503 EXHILARATING THING ABOUT 1848 01:41:16,570 --> 01:41:17,137 MEDICINE IS THERE'S ALWAYS 1849 01:41:17,204 --> 01:41:21,074 SOMETHING NEW TO BE LEARNED. 1850 01:41:21,141 --> 01:41:24,044 >> WELL, WE HAVE NO FURTHER 1851 01:41:24,111 --> 01:41:27,448 QUESTIONS SO I WANT TO ON BEHALF 1852 01:41:27,514 --> 01:41:29,616 OF EVERYONE HERE AND THE AT THE 1853 01:41:29,683 --> 01:41:33,086 NIH WHO ARE WATCHING ONLINE AND 1854 01:41:33,153 --> 01:41:37,090 AROUND THE WORLD WANT TO THANK 1855 01:41:37,157 --> 01:41:40,561 YOU BOTH FOR BRINGING TO OUR 1856 01:41:40,627 --> 01:41:43,130 ATTENTION THESE EXTRAORDINARY 1857 01:41:43,197 --> 01:41:44,798 DEVELOPMENTS WHICH I DON'T THINK 1858 01:41:44,865 --> 01:41:46,567 WERE WIDELY KNOWN AMONGST THE 1859 01:41:46,633 --> 01:41:51,638 GENERAL MEDICAL PUBLIC AND 1860 01:41:51,705 --> 01:41:54,508 PERHAPS AMONGST OUR STUDENTS SO 1861 01:41:54,575 --> 01:41:55,709 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR VERY 1862 01:41:55,776 --> 01:41:57,044 EXQUISITE 1863 01:41:57,110 PRESENTATIONS