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Development of a Hepatitis B Virus Reporter System to Monitor the Early Stages of the Replication Cycle
Published on: February 1, 2017
Community-Based Screening for Hepatitis B Virus in a Rural Japanese Population: The Nagawa Project
Hiroyuki Kobayashi1,2, Satoru Joshita2,3,4,5
1Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
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