TY  - JOUR
T1  - DEvelopment of hepatitis b vaccine
AU  - Beasley R
Y1  - 2009/07/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1024
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 322
EP  - 324
VL  - 302
IS  - 3
N2  - 
The article by Buynak and colleagues, published in JAMA in 1976,1 slipped by almost unnoticed during an uncomfortable centenary marked by the reunification of North and South Vietnam, a deepening US recession, the swine flu vaccination debacle, the defeat of President Ford, the first outbreak of legionnaires disease, the largest earthquake of the 20th century in Tangshan, China, and the first Ebola virus outbreak (Zaire). The good news was that smallpox was almost gone and the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was to be awarded to Blumberg for discovery of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and to Gajdusek for his work on kuru.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1024
ER  -