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Hepatitis B : the hunt for a killer virus /
About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. It has killed more people than AIDS and also causes millions of cases of liver cancer. The discovery of this deadly virus and the vaccine against it--a vaccine that is sharply decreasing the infection rate worldwide and is probably th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Differences in Response to Disease
- Chapter 2. Oxford and the National Institutes of Health: Inherited Variation and Susceptibility to Disease
- Chapter 3. Polymorphisms and Geography: Disease, Genetics, and Evolutionary Biology
- Chapter 4. We Discover a New Polymorphism: The Ag System
- Chapter 5. The Discovery of Australia Antigen
- Chapter 6. What Is Australia Antigen?
- Chapter 7. Identifying the Hepatitis B Virus
- Chapter 8. The Control of Posttransfusion Hepatitis
- Chapter 9. The Hepatitis B Vaccine
- Chapter 10. Hepatitis B Virus and Cancer of the Liver
- Chapter 11. What Is Now Known about HBV?
- Chapter 12. Back to Polymorphisms and Inherited Susceptibility to Disease
- Chapter 13. HBV and Its Connections: Current Research and the Future
- Appendix 1. Scientists and Staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center Referred to in the Text
- Appendix 2. Research on Hyaluronic Acid
- Appendix 3. The National Institutes of Health and the Funding of Basic Medical Research
- Appendix 4. Molecular Biology
- Appendix 5. A Gazetteer of Selected Place-Names Used in the Text
- Index