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Hepatology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1332-1333

  Le Gal, Frédéric ^a   Castelneau, Corinne ^b   Gault, Elyanne ^a   Al Hawajri, Nasser ^a   Gordien, Emmanuel ^a   Marcellin, Patrick ^b   Dény, Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE BICHAT BEAUJON CRB3   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; PEGINTERFERON;

DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248654111     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21652     Document Type: Letter

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