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

摘要

The discovery of the Australia Antigen in the mid-1960s led, in a few years, to the identification of the virus of Hepatitis B. Shortly after, the Hepatitis A virus was discovered in 1973, filling the gap in the knowledge of the etiological agents of infectious and serum hepatitis, the existence of which had been predicted by epidemiological studies of previous decades.