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This symposium is the thirteenth biennial clinical microbiology program sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania Branch of the American Society for Microbiology in cooperation with the Philadelphia area medical schools and the Bureau of Laboratories of the Pennsylvania Department of Health. This year a generous contribution from Merck, Sharp and Dohme has helped to make the program a reality.
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Eisenstein, T.K. (1984). Introduction. In: Millman, I., Eisenstein, T.K., Blumberg, B.S. (eds) Hepatitis B. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0369-3_1
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