Increasing prevalence of HDV/HBV infection over 15 years in France
✍ Scribed by Servant-Delmas, Annabelle; Le Gal, Frédéric; Gallian, Pierre; Gordien, Emmanuel; Laperche, Syria
- Book ID
- 121447749
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 375 KB
- Volume
- 59
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1386-6532
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