Addressing the increasing global burden of viral hepatitis

Chelsea R Brown¹, Jennifer H MacLachlan^{1

2}, Benjamin C Cowie^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Editorial

Chelsea R Brown et al. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;6(4):274-276.

doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2017.05.02.

Chelsea R Brown¹, Jennifer H MacLachlan^{1

2}, Benjamin C Cowie^{1

2}

¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Victoria, Australia.
² Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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