More than third of world's population has been infected with hepatitis B virus
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The Absence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Patients with Hepatitis B virus in Mashhad, Iran
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7192.1213a