Persistent hepatitis B virus infection in subjects without hepatitis B surface antigen: Clinically significant or purely “occult”?
✍ Scribed by Christian Bréchot; Valérie Thiers; Dina Kremsdorf; Bertrand Nalpas; Stanislas Pol; Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot
- Book ID
- 111721534
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 98 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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