Hepatitis B Vaccination Strategies
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hepatitis b vaccination
one of the most serious kinds of hepatitis is hepatitis b. this condition is more common than aids, and is 100 time more contagious. in iran the most common cause of acute and chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and also hepatocellar carcinoma in adults, is hepatitis b. more than two billion people are infected and more than 350 million of individuals are carriers of this virus in the entire wo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0835-7900
DOI: 10.1155/1994/795347