## Abstract Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a virus that infects about 350,000,000 people worldwide with a clinical spectrum of acute hepatitis, the healthy carrier state, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The outcome of HBV infection is the result of complicated viralβhost interactions. As
Schizophrenia: Genetics and the maternal immune response to viral infection
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- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 819 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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