Hepatitis B : The Virus, the Disease, and the Vaccine

Keynote Address: The Australia Antigen Story.- The Virus and Its Transmission.- Hepatitis B Viruses.- Medical Consequences of the Carrier State.- The Epidemiology of Hepatitis B.- Clinical and Diagnostic Perspectives of HBV.- The Morphologic Expression of Hepatitis B.- Assays for Hepatitis B Virus.- Immunologic Responses to Hepatitis B Virus and their Interpretations.- Hepatitis B Infection Control Among Physicians, Dentists and Laboratory Personnel.- Control Measures for Hepatitis B Problems in Dentistry.- The Vaccine.- The Development of the Hepatitis B Vaccine.- Clinical Experience with Hepatitis B Vaccine.- Hepatitis B Vaccine Trials, Experience and Review.- Priorities for the Use of Hepatitis B Vaccine.- Vaccine Economics: Issues and Answers.- Newly Licensed Hepatitis B Vaccine.- Vaccines of the Future.- 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.- Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Polypeptide and Synthetic Peptide Vaccines.- Synthesis and Assembly of Hepatitis B Virus Antigens in Heterologous Systems.- Closing Remarks.- Abbreviations.- Contributors.