Viral Hepatitis: New Light on an Old Disease

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 212, Issue 6, 1970, Pages 1019-1029

  Krugman, Saul ^a,b   Giles, Joan P ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Willowbrook State School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHILD; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TESTS; GAMMA-GLOBULINS; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; MALE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0014941269     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1970.03170190035005     Document Type: Article

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