The purposes of this study were 2-fold: (i) To enumerate peripheral immunoregulatory T cell subsets in untreated patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and (ii) to examine the relationship between disturbances in the balance of lymphocyte subsets with liver disease and the presence
The influence of HTLV-III infection on the natural history of hepatitis B virus infection in male homosexual HBsAg carriers
✍ Scribed by Kim Krogsgaard; Bjarne ÖRskov Lindhardt; Jens Ole Nielsen; Poul Andersson; Peter Kryger; Jan Aldershvile; Jan Gerstoft; Court Pedersen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 521 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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