Full title: Hepatitis B : the hunt for a killer virus / Baruch S. Blumberg.

Author/creator: Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-.

Call Numbers: N616.3623/21

Record Identifier: 74VvBqGvBOwX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xii, 244, [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm., Ch. 1. Differences in Response to Disease -- Ch. 2. Oxford and the National Institutes of Health: Inherited Variation and Susceptibility to Disease -- Ch. 3. Polymorphisms and Geography: Disease, Genetics, and Evolutionary Biology -- Ch. 4. We Discover a New Polymorphism: The Ag System -- Ch. 5. The Discovery of Australia Antigen -- Ch. 6. What Is Australia Antigen? -- Ch. 7. Identifying the Hepatitis B Virus -- Ch. 8. The Control of Posttransfusion Hepatitis -- Ch. 9. The Hepatitis B Vaccine -- Ch. 10. Hepatitis B Virus and Cancer of the Liver -- Ch. 11. What Is Now Known about HBV? -- Ch. 12. Back to Polymorphisms and Inherited Susceptibility to Disease -- Ch. 13. HBV and Its Connections: Current Research and the Future -- App. 1. Scientists and Staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center Referred to in the Text -- App. 2. Research on Hyaluronic Acid -- App. 3. The National Institutes of Health and the Funding of Basic Medical Research -- App. 4. Molecular Biology., App. 5. A Gazetteer of Selected Place-Names Used in the Text.

Publishers: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 616.36230194, 616.362301924

MMS ID: 991016346319702626