Hepatitis B Virus Studies, Hepatitis C virus research, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment · 2019 · Journal of HepatologyGiovanni Raimondo,
Stephen Locarnini,
Teresa Pollicino,
Massimo Levrero,
Fabien Zoulim,
Anna S. Lok,
Jean‐Pierre Allain,
Thomas Berg,
Antonio Bertoletti,
Maurizia Rossana Brunetto,
Raffaele Bruno,
Ding‐Shinn Chen,
Nicola Coppola,
Markus Cornberg,
Antonio Craxı̀,
Maura Dandri,
V. Di Marco,
Carlo Ferrari,
Giovanni Battista Gaeta,
Dieter Glebe,
Luca G. Guidotti,
Anna Kramvis,
Pietro Lampertico,
Chengyao Li,
Jake T. Liang,
Alfredo Marzano,
T.I. Michalak,
Jean–Michel Pawlotsky,
Daniele Prati,
Massimo Puoti,
Didier Samuel,
Vincent Soriano,
Giovanni Squadrito,
Camille Sureau,
Christian Trépo,
Man‐Fung Yuen In October 2018 a large number of international experts with complementary expertise came together in Taormina to participate in a workshop on occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI). The objectives of the workshop were to review the existing knowledge on OBI, to identify issues that require further investigation, to highlight both existing controversies and newly emerging perspectives, and ultimately to update the statements previously agreed in 2008. This paper represents the output from the workshop.
