Hepatitis B Virus: Can it be a Vector-Borne Transmitted Infection?

The question of whether hepatitis B virus could be a vector-borne transmitted infection was around in the scientific field since the 1949. The majority of the studies agreed that Hepatitis B virus could be found in the bedbugs for a longer period of time than in the mosquitoes. Moreover, there was evidence that certain species of mosquitoes could transmit hepatitis B virus to animals leading to immunity; however, this did not reflect their ability to transmit the virus to humans because it was done under experimental conditions and on a small number of animals. Given the great recent advance in the laboratory techniques, more research about this subject needs to be done to identify whether vector-borne transmission of hepatitis B virus can explain the hepatitis B cases with no apparent cause of infection.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Tropical medicine & surgery

• Publication date

  2015-06-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4172/2329-9088.1000186
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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