Hepatitis B virus (HBV) remains an important cause of acute and chronic liver disease globally and in the United States. An encouraging trend is that the incidence of acute hepatitis B in the United States declined as much as 80% between 1987 and 2004, attributable to effective vaccination programs
The epidemiology of hepatitis C infection in the United States
โ Scribed by Vinod K. Rustgi
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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