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Hepatitis B

The Virus, the Disease, and the Vaccine

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Editors:
  1. Irving Millman

    1. Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. Toby K. Eisenstein

    1. Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

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  3. Baruch S. Blumberg

    1. Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Toby K. Eisenstein
      Pages 1-3

  3. Keynote Address: The Australia Antigen Story

    1. Keynote Address: The Australia Antigen Story

      • Baruch S. Blumberg
      Pages 5-31

  4. The Virus and its Transmission

    1. Hepatitis B Viruses

      • Jesse Summers
      Pages 33-43

    2. Medical Consequences of the Carrier State

      • W. Thomas London
      Pages 45-53

    3. The Epidemiology of Hepatitis B

      • Jules L. Dienstag
      Pages 55-65

  5. Clinical and Diagnostic Perspectives of HBV

    1. The Morphologic Expression of Hepatitis B

      • Evgenya Skarinsky, Emanuel Rubin
      Pages 67-93

    2. Assays for Hepatitis B Virus

      • Chung-Mei Ling
      Pages 95-104

    3. Immunologic Responses to Hepatitis B Virus and their Interpretations

      • Barbara G. Werner, Jules L. Dienstag, Barbara J. Kuter, David R. Snydman, B. Frank Polk, Donald E. Craven et al.
      Pages 105-111

    4. Hepatitis B Infection Control Among Physicians, Dentists and Laboratory Personnel

      • William J. Schneider
      Pages 113-122

    5. Control Measures for Hepatitis B Problems in Dentistry

      • Vernon J. Brightman, Robert Weibel
      Pages 123-135

  6. The Vaccine

    1. The Development of the Hepatitis B Vaccine

      • Irving Millman
      Pages 137-147

    2. Clinical Experience with Hepatitis B Vaccine

      • Arlene A. McLean, Eugene B. Buynak, Barbara J. Kuter, Maurice R. Hilleman, David J. West
      Pages 149-159

    3. Hepatitis B Vaccine Trials, Experience and Review

      • Robert E. Weibel
      Pages 161-174

    4. Priorities for the Use of Hepatitis B Vaccine

      • Roger H. Bernier, Mark A. Kane, Neal Nathanson, Donald P. Francis
      Pages 175-187

  7. Vaccine Economics: Issues and Answers

    1. Newly Licensed Hepatitis B Vaccine

      • Robert J. Gerety
      Pages 189-194

  8. Vaccines of the Future

    1. Characterization and Mapping of Viral and Putative Viral-Cellular Transcripts in a Hepatitis B Virus Infected Human Hepatoma Cell Line and in Chimpanzee Carrier Liver

      • Prasanta R. Chakraborty, Nelson Ruiz-Opazo, David A. Shafritz
      Pages 195-214

    2. Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Polypeptide and Synthetic Peptide Vaccines

      • G. R. Dreesman, I. Ionescu-Matiu, Y. Sanchez, R. C. Kennedy, J. T. Sparrow, J. L. Melnick
      Pages 215-224

    3. Synthesis and Assembly of Hepatitis B Virus Antigens in Heterologous Systems

      • Pablo Valenzuela, Paulina Bull, Doris Coit, Brian Craine, Robert Hallewell, Ulrike Heberlein et al.
      Pages 225-236

    4. Closing Remarks

      • Irving Millman
      Pages 237-240
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About this book

Toby K. Eisenstein Symposium Committee Chairperson Temple University School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140 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. The subject matter for this symposium represents an attractive spectrum of medical, biological and molecular approaches to the practical solution of a public health prob1em--name1y, prevention of infection with the hepatitis B virus. The symposium may be unique in that it focuses on a product which was first marketed less than three months ago, but included in the program are presen­ tations on two new approaches to hepatitis B vaccine production which may replace the one which is newly unveiled. The rapidity of progress in our present era of biological research is indeed astonishing.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

    Irving Millman, Baruch S. Blumberg

  • Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

    Toby K. Eisenstein

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hepatitis B

  • Book Subtitle: The Virus, the Disease, and the Vaccine

  • Editors: Irving Millman, Toby K. Eisenstein, Baruch S. Blumberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0369-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41723-8Published: 01 August 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0371-6Published: 12 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0369-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 251

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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