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    Interferons for Chronic Hepatitis B

    Interferons for Chronic Hepatitis B



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    4. Dienstag JL (2010). Chronic viral hepatitis. In GL Mandell et al., eds., Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 7th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1593–1670. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.




    By: Reference Healthwise Staff Last Revised: October 29, 2012
    Medical Review: Reference Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
    Reference W. Thomas London, MD - Hepatology


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