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Stephen Locarnini

Stephen Locarnini

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Immunology

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103
Citations
43719
World Ranking
635
National Ranking
20

Medicine

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103
Citations
43719
World Ranking
7300
National Ranking
215

Overview

Stephen Locarnini is affiliated with Melbourne Health in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with specific emphasis on Epidemiology and Hepatology. They have contributed extensively to studies related to infectious diseases, particularly hepatitis viruses.

Their work spans several subfields including Epidemiology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Ecology. Within these areas, their research topics cover a range of themes:

  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis C Virus Research
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Their publication record includes papers in several respected venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Journal of Viral Hepatitis
  • Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Vaccine
  • Gut

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen Locarnini include:

  • Margaret Littlejohn
  • Peter Revill
  • Lilly Yuen
  • Kathy Merlock Jackson
  • Josef Wagner

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by Stephen Locarnini include:

  • The evolution and clinical impact of hepatitis B virus genome diversity, 2020, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • Long-term serological, virological and histological responses to RNA inhibition by ARC-520 in Chinese chronic hepatitis B patients on entecavir treatment, 2021, Gut
  • Glycoengineered hepatitis B virus-like particles with enhanced immunogenicity, 2020, Vaccine
  • Stopping nucleot(s)ide analogues in non-cirrhotic HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients: HBsAg loss at 96 weeks is associated with low baseline HBsAg levels, 2022, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Origins and Evolution of the Primate Hepatitis B Virus, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Asian-Pacific clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis B: a 2015 update.

    S. K. Sarin;M. Kumar;G. K. Lau;Z. Abbas

  • Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B: a 2012 update.

    Yun Fan Liaw;Jia Horng Kao;Teerha Piratvisuth;Henry Lik Yuen Chan

  • Persistence of cccDNA During the Natural History of Chronic Hepatitis B and Decline During Adefovir Dipivoxil Therapy

    Bettina Werle-Lapostolle;Scott Bowden;Stephen Locarnini;Karsten Wursthorn;Karsten Wursthorn

  • Genetic Diversity of Hepatitis B Virus Strains Derived Worldwide: Genotypes, Subgenotypes, and HBsAg Subtypes

    Helene Norder;Anne-Marie Couroucé;Pierre Coursaget;José M Echevarria

  • Statements from the Taormina expert meeting on occult hepatitis B virus infection.

    Giovanni Raimondo;Jean Pierre Allain;Maurizia R. Brunetto;Marie Annick Buendia

  • Hepatitis B virus infection

    Man-Fung Yuen;Ding-Shinn Chen;Ding-Shinn Chen;Geoffrey M. Dusheiko;Harry L. A. Janssen

  • Resistance to adefovir dipivoxil therapy associated with the selection of a novel mutation in the HBV polymerase

    Peter W Angus;Rhys B Vaughan;Shelly Xiong;Huiling Yang

  • Clinical Emergence of Entecavir-Resistant Hepatitis B Virus Requires Additional Substitutions in Virus Already Resistant to Lamivudine

    D J Tenney;S M Levine;R E Rose;A W Walsh

  • Molecular virology of hepatitis B virus.

    Stephen Locarnini

  • Antiviral drug-resistant HBV: standardization of nomenclature and assays and recommendations for management.

    Anna S. Lok;Fabien Zoulim;Stephen Locarnini;Angeline Bartholomeusz

  • Hepatitis B virus resistance to nucleos(t)ide analogues.

    Fabien Zoulim;Fabien Zoulim;Stephen Locarnini

  • Nomenclature for antiviral‐resistant human hepatitis B virus mutations in the polymerase region

    Lieven J. Stuyver;Stephen A. Locarnini;Anna Lok;Douglas D. Richman

  • Serum hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen titers: disease phase influences correlation with viral load and intrahepatic hepatitis B virus markers

    Alexander J.V. Thompson;Tin Nguyen;David Iser;David Iser;Anna Ayres

  • Update of the statements on biology and clinical impact of occult hepatitis B virus infection

    Giovanni Raimondo;Stephen Locarnini;Teresa Pollicino;Massimo Levrero

  • Hepatitis B surface antigen levels during the natural history of chronic hepatitis B: A perspective on Asia

    Tin Nguyen;Alexander J.V. Thompson;Scott Bowden;Catherine Croagh

  • RNAi-based treatment of chronically infected patients and chimpanzees reveals that integrated hepatitis B virus DNA is a source of HBsAg

    Christine I. Wooddell;Man Fung Yuen;Henry Lik Yuen Chan;Robert G. Gish

  • Perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus: an Australian experience.

    Elke Wiseman;Melissa A Fraser;Sally Holden;Anne Glass

  • Hepatitis B surface antigen quantification: why and how to use it in 2011 - a core group report.

    Henry Lik-Yuen Chan;Alex Thompson;Michelle Martinot-Peignoux;Teerha Piratvisuth

  • Structural organization of the hepatitis B virus minichromosome.

    C T Bock;S Schwinn;S Locarnini;J Fyfe

  • Regulation of Toll-like receptor-2 expression in chronic hepatitis B by the precore protein†

    Kumar Visvanathan;Narelle A Skinner;Alex J V Thompson;Stephen M Riordan

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon R. Lewin
Sharon R. Lewin University of Melbourne
Alexander J. Thompson
Alexander J. Thompson Ascension Health
Peter W Angus
Peter W Angus Austin Hospital
Ian D. Gust
Ian D. Gust University of Melbourne
Robert G. Gish
Robert G. Gish University of Nevada Reno
George K. K. Lau
George K. K. Lau Humanity & Health
Henry Lik-Yuen Chan
Henry Lik-Yuen Chan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gail V. Matthews
Gail V. Matthews University of New South Wales
Man-Fung Yuen
Man-Fung Yuen University of Hong Kong

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