A male patient with severe acute hepatitis who was domestically infected with a genotype H hepatitis B virus in Iwate, Japan
โ Scribed by Ichiro Kumagai; Koichi Abe; Takayoshi Oikawa; Akihiro Sato; Shinichiro Sato; Ryujin Endo; Yasuhiro Takikawa; Kazuyuki Suzuki; Tomoyuki Masuda; Shigehiko Sainokami; Kazunori Endo; Masaharu Takahashi; Hiroaki Okamoto
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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