Type B and D viral hepatitis: Epidemiological changes in Southern Europe

FORUM - Trends in Experimental and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 126-133

  Gaeta, Giovanni B ^a   Stornaiuolo, Gianfranca ^a   Precone, Davide F ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis B; Chronic hepatitis D; HBsAg carriers; Pre core mutants

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VACCINATION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS MUTATION; WILD TYPE;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; EUROPE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS D; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035726848     PISSN: 11218142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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