Advances in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Reviews in Medical Virology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 223-234

  Marques, Adriana R ^a   Straus, Stephen E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ADEFOVIR DIPIVOXIL; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIDANOSINE; ENTECAVIR; FAMCICLOVIR; FIALURIDINE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN; LAMIVUDINE; LEVAMISOLE; LOBUCAVIR; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; PREDNISONE; THYMOSIN ALPHA1; VIDARABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MYALGIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031790995     PISSN: 10529276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1654(1998100)8:4<223::AID-RMV229>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Review

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