Viral hepatitis update: Progress and perspectives

Table 2 Hepatitis A virus highlights

	Hepatitis A virus
1	The risk of HAV infection is associated with the lack of safe water and poor and sanitation
2	Due to the vaccine introduction in childhood, young adults are becoming more susceptible to HAV infections
3	In countries where waterborne transmission is rare, outbreaks occur among men who have sex with men, injecting drug users and contaminated food
4	Since molecular detection is not routinely performed for diagnosis, surveillance programs, including viral amplification and sequencing, are needed to know the strains that circulate in a certain place
5	One of the greatest challenges for HAV is to increase vaccination coverage globally, still implementing the single-dose schedule, to decrease the new infections, and, in the long term, to achieve its eradication

HAV: Hepatitis A virus.