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Editorial
. 2021 Mar 26;13(4):555.
doi: 10.3390/v13040555.

Forty-Five Years after the Discovery of the Hepatitis D Virus: Where Do We Stand?

Mario Rizzetto  1 , Tommaso Stroffolini  2
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Editorial

Forty-Five Years after the Discovery of the Hepatitis D Virus: Where Do We Stand?

Mario Rizzetto et al. Viruses. .

Abstract

The discovery of the Australia Antigen in the mid-1960s led, in a few years, to the identification of the virus of Hepatitis B [...].

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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