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Viral Hepatitis and the Australia-SH Antigen

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Recent work has shed new light on an old disease. Australia antigen seems to be associated with small spherical particles which could be the agents of hepatitis.

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ZUCKERMAN, A. Viral Hepatitis and the Australia-SH Antigen. Nature 223, 569–572 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223569a0

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