Treatment of chronic hepatitis B
โ Scribed by Gary L. Davis
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 365 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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โฆ Synopsis
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B Chronic HBV infection is common and affects more than 200 million individuals worldwide. It is estimated that more than 1 million persons in the United States alone are Chronically infected with this virus. Fur-
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