Hepatitis

Question 1

What is hepatitis?

Answer 1

Inflammation of the liver and destruction of hepatocytes

Question 2

What viruses cause hepatitis?

Answer 2

Hepatotropic viruses- they have an effect on the liver

Question 3

What are the symptoms of hepatitis

Answer 3

Jaundice- yellowing of eyes/skin, elevated levels of transaminases present in the blood

Question 4

What hepatotropic viruses are there?

Answer 4

Hepatitis A-E

Question 5

Hepatitis C transmission?

Answer 5

Bloodborne

Question 6

Hepatitis B transmission?

Answer 6

Bloodborne, unprotected sex, mother to baby

Question 7

Hepatitis D can only infect those infected with?

Answer 7

Hepatitis B

Question 8

Which hepatotropic viruses can cause chronic infection?

Answer 8

Hepatitis B, C and D

Question 9

Genome of hepatitis C?

Answer 9

+ssRNA

Question 10

Genome of hepatitis B?

Answer 10

dsDNA-RT

Question 11

Baltimore classification of hepatitis C?

Answer 11

Group IV

Question 12

Baltimore classification of hepatitis B?

Answer 12

Group VII

Question 13

Is there a vaccine for hepatitis C?

Answer 13

No

Question 14

Is there a vaccine for hepatitis B?

Answer 14

Yes

Question 15

Is hepatitis B curable?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

Is hepatitis C curable?

Answer 16

Yes

Question 17

Hepatitis A and E are spread via?

Answer 17

Fecal oral route

Question 18

Which people are most likely to develop chronic HBV infection?

Answer 18

Children

The risk decreases with age

Question 19

When was HBV added to the routine vaccination programme in the UK?

Answer 19

2017

Question 20

HCV symptoms in the beginning?

Answer 20

There are no symptoms of early infection

Tends to be asymptomatic

Question 21

Hepatitis D can only infect individuals already infected with?

Answer 21

Hepatitis B

Question 22

Chronic infection can progress to?

Answer 22

Liver cirrhosis, carcinomas or liver-failure

Question 23

HBV is more infectious than HIV by how many times?

Answer 23

100 times more infectious than HIV

Question 24

Children infected with HBV are at the greatest risk of developing?

Answer 24

Chronic infection

Question 25

HBV genome?

Answer 25

dsDNA-RT

Question 26

HCV genome?

Answer 26

+ssRNA

Question 27

Majority of HCV infections become?

Answer 27

Chronic

Question 28

Majority of individuals infected with HCV develop?

Answer 28

Chronic infection

Question 29

What determines susceptibility to developing chronic HBV infection?

Answer 29

The age you are infected at | The young are much more vulnerable

Question 30

Which hepatoviruses are spread through the fecal-oral route?

Answer 30

HEV and HAV

Question 31

Which hepatoviruses result only in acute infection?

Answer 31

HEV and HAV