Nobel Prize to Baruch Blumberg for the discovery of the aetiology of hepatitis B

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 384-387

  Zetterström, Rolf ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AU ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; NOBEL PRIZE; PHILADELPHIA; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC;

EID: 41949138391     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2008.00669.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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