Humoral immune response to hepatitis B vaccination: A laboratory practical for medical and bioscience undergraduates

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-58

  Chow, Vincent T K ^a   Chan, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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