A total of 390 parenteral drug abusers (PDAs) at the Kaohsiung Municipal Narcotics Abstention Institute were examined for markers of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis D virus (HDV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). All sera were tested for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), surface antibod
Seroepidemiology of hepatitis a, b, and d viruses and human t-lymphocyte tropic viruses in japanese drug abusers
โ Scribed by Kendo Kiyosawa; Hirokazu Oofusa; Hiroshi Saitoh; Takeshi Sodeyama; Eiji Tanaka; Seiichi Furuta; Susumu Itoh; Hiroyuki Ogata; Hideko Kobuchi; Mitsuaki Kameko; Masamitsu Kanai
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 417 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0146-6615
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