High prevalence of occult hepatitis B in Baltimore injection drug users.

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Published in Hepatology on January 01, 2004

Authors

Michael Torbenson1, Rajesh Kannangai, Jacquie Astemborski, Steffanie A Strathdee, David Vlahov, David L Thomas

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. mtorgen@jhmi.edu

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