Hepatitis B : the hunt for a killer virus /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Differences in response to disease
  • Oxford and the National Institutes of Health : inherited variation and suspectibility to disease
  • Polymorphisms and geography : disease, genetics, and evolutionary biology
  • We discover a new polymorphism : the ag system
  • The discovery of Australia antigen
  • What is Australia antigen?
  • Identifying the hepatitis B virus
  • The control of posttransfusion hepatitis
  • The hepatitis B vaccine
  • What is known about HBV?
  • Back to polymorphisms and inherited susceptibility to disease
  • HBV and its connections : current research and the future
  • Scientists and staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center referred to in the text
  • Research on hyaluronic acid
  • The national institutes of health and the funding of basic medical research
  • Molecular biology
  • A gazetteer of selected place-names used in the text