Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the leading causes of liver disorders such as liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The prognosis of hepatitis B in patients with HIV co-infection is poor and chances of spontaneous clearance of HBV infection is less likely. To investigate if n-acetyl cysteine (NAC) would protect liver from toxic effects of efavirenz (EFVZ) as a possible combi...

Acute liver failure (ALF) is the clinical manifestation of sudden and severe hepatic injury. It is a rare disorder, with an incidence between one and six cases per million people every year in the developed world, and it has a high mortality rate. There are many definitions of ALF, but it is mainly characterised by the presence of encephalopathy during the course of fulminant hepatitis in a pat...

During inflammatory processes, immunocompetent cells are exposed to substantial amounts of free radicals and toxic compounds. Glutathione is a cysteine-containing tripeptide that an important ubiquitous antioxidant molecule produced in human organs. The intracellular content GSH regulates the detoxifying capacity cells, as well immune response. particularly liver, where it serves major non-prot...

Surveillance by the Unexplained Deaths and Critical Illnesses Project (UNEX) uncovered a novel presentation of adenovirus type 3 infection that satisfied the criteria for toxic shock-like syndrome in a 28-year-old immunocompetent man. Adenovirus may be a cause of toxic shock syndrome; surveillance systems such as UNEX may uncover additional causes of this and other clinically defined infectious...