Can we eradicate hepatitis B?

Can we eradicate Cysticercosis?

Man is the only known definitive host of the tapeworm Taenia solium and becomes a carrier by eating undercooked pork contaminated with “Cysticercus cellulosae” (cysticerci). Pigs act as intermediate host and acquire cysticercosis by ingestion of eggs or proglottids from human feces, which develop into cysticerci within tissue mostly without causing clinical symptoms in the host. Cysticercosis o...

Targeting Wnt signaling: can we safely eradicate cancer stem cells?

The Wnt signaling pathways have been conserved throughout evolution and regulate cell proliferation, morphology, motility, and fate during embryonic development. These pathways also play important roles throughout adult life to maintain homeostasis of tissues including skin, blood, intestine, and brain by regulating somatic stem cells and their niches. Aberrant regulation of the Wnt pathway lea...

It’s Often Better to Eradicate, but Can We Eradicate Better?

Invasive species eradications have achieved important conservation gains the world over. Growing numbers of eradications take place, however, in complex and highly altered ecosystems with high risks of unexpected ecological effects. Ecosystems that contain multiple invaders, have lost one or more native species along with their functional roles, or have undergone long-term change to soil and ot...

how can we make decision for patients with chronic hepatitis b according to hepatitis b virus (hbv) dna level?

conclusions it is concluded that most hbeag negative hepatitis b patients with serum hbv dna level of 2000-20000 iu/ml, persistent normal alt concentration, and no or mild liver damage on biopsy can be clinically managed as hbv inactive carriers. results two hundred forty-three hbeag negative hepatitis b patients were stratified into three groups based on to their hbv dna level including group ...

can Isolated hepatitis B core antibody in HIV-infected patients response to hepatitis B vaccine help to elucidate the cause?