Hepatitis delta: the rediscovery

Abstract

Hepatitis D is returning to western Europe through immigration. The clinical presentation recapitulates the typical features of a florid hepatitis D. Hepatitis D is also being rediscovered in the developing world and in the United States. Hepatitis D virus (HDV) remains endemic in many countries and efforts are underway to map the infection at local levels and improve the medical alert to hepatitis D. In the United States it is generally thought that HDV has gone and hepatitis D is no longer a problem. Awareness of hepatitis D in the country has recently been revived.

Keywords: HDV drug addicts; HDV epidemiology; HDV rediscovery; HDV transmission; Hepatitis D (delta); Hepatitis D (delta) virus.