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Z Gastroenterol 2007; 45(6): 525-574
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-963232
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Prophylaxe, Diagnostik und Therapie der Hepatitis-B-Virus-(HBV-)Infektion: „Upgrade” der Leitlinie, AWMF-Register-Nr.: 021/011

Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Therapy of Hepatitis-B-Virus-(HBV-)Infection: upgrade of the guideline, AWMF-Register 021/011M. Cornberg1 , U. Protzer2 , M. M. Dollinger3 , J. Petersen4 , H. Wedemeyer1 , T. Berg5 , W. Jilg6 , A. Erhardt7 , S. Wirth8 , P. Schirmacher9 , W. E. Fleig10 , M. P. Manns1
  • 1Abteilung Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
  • 2Institut für Med. Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universität zu Köln
  • 3Innere Medizin I, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle
  • 4I. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
  • 5Medizinische Klinik m. S. Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie, Charité, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 6Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität Regensburg
  • 7Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
  • 8Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, HELIOS Klinikum Wuppertal, Universität Witten/Herdecke
  • 9Pathologisches Institut, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
  • 10Universitätsklinikum, Universität Leipzig
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Manuskript eingetroffen: 27.4.2007

Manuskript akzeptiert: 9.5.2007

Publication Date:
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Konsensuskonferenz am 27.1.2007 (13.30 Uhr) in Göttingen

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Prof. Dr. Michael P. Manns

Abteilung Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Endokrinologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

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