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Hepatology

• Original article: HVR1-mediated antibody evasion of highly infectious in vivo adapted HCV in humanised mice (20 November, 2015)

  Jannick Prentoe, Lieven Verhoye, Rodrigo Velázquez Moctezuma, Caroline Buysschaert, Ali Farhoudi, Richard Wang, Harvey Alter, Philip Meuleman, Jens Bukh
• Original article: Lack of Siglec-7 expression identifies a dysfunctional natural killer cell subset associated with liver inflammation and fibrosis in chronic HCV infection (16 December, 2015)

  Stefania Varchetta, Dalila Mele, Andrea Lombardi, Barbara Oliviero, Stefania Mantovani, Carmine Tinelli, Marta Spreafico, Daniele Prati, Serena Ludovisi, Giovanna Ferraioli, Carlo Filice, Alessio Aghemo, Pietro Lampertico, Floriana Facchetti, Francesca Bernuzzi, Pietro Invernizzi, Mario U Mondelli
• Original article: Natural history of chronic HBV infection in West Africa: a longitudinal population-based study from The Gambia (16 July, 2015)

  Yusuke Shimakawa, Maud Lemoine, Harr Freeya Njai, Christian Bottomley, Gibril Ndow, Robert D Goldin, Abdoulie Jatta, Adam Jeng-Barry, Rita Wegmuller, Sophie E Moore, Ignatius Baldeh, Makie Taal, Umberto D'Alessandro, Hilton Whittle, Ramou Njie, Mark Thursz, Maimuna Mendy
• Original article: Host cell mTORC1 is required for HCV RNA replication (14 August, 2015)

  Stefanie Stöhr, Rui Costa, Lisa Sandmann, Sandra Westhaus, Stephanie Pfaender, Anggakusuma, Eva Dazert, Philip Meuleman, Florian W R Vondran, Michael P Manns, Eike Steinmann, Thomas von Hahn, Sandra Ciesek
• Original article: Targeting a host-cell entry factor barricades antiviral-resistant HCV variants from on-therapy breakthrough in human-liver mice (25 August, 2015)

  Koen Vercauteren, Richard J P Brown, Ahmed Atef Mesalam, Juliane Doerrbecker, Sabin Bhuju, Robert Geffers, Naomi Van Den Eede, C Patrick McClure, Fulvia Troise, Lieven Verhoye, Thomas Baumert, Ali Farhoudi, Riccardo Cortese, Jonathan K Ball, Geert Leroux-Roels, Thomas Pietschmann, Alfredo Nicosia, Philip Meuleman