Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus 9780691187235
About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. It has killed more people than AIDS and also causes mi
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Table of contents :
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
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
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