Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus
10.00
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780691116235 (0691116237)
Publish date: November 16th 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Blumberg discovered "Australia antigen," which he thought was a marker or cause of leukemia. Years later, Alfred Prince concluded that the antigen was actually part of the hepatitis B virus. Using this knowledge, Maurice Hilleman developed the vaccine against hepatitis B that is used to this day. ...