The discovery of hepatitis B virus (HBV) did not arise from a goal-directed search for this pathogen but from studies in basic science that were initially set on a different path. Much of the early research that resulted in the discovery of the virus, the invention of diagnostics, and the...
1Dept of Child Health, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK; 2Hospital Infantil La Paz, Madrid, Spain; 3Dipartimento di Pediatria, Universitá Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy; dClinica Medica 2, Universitá di Padova, Padua, Italy Hepatology, Volume ...