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J Clin Microbiol. 1978 September; 8(3): 349-350
Copyright © 1978 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Third Component, HB_eAg/3, of Hepatitis B e Antigen System, Identified by Three Different Double-Diffusion Techniques

¹ Hepatitis Laboratories Division, Bureau of Epidemiology, Center for Disease Control, Phoenix, Arizona 85014
² Division of Blood and Blood Products, Bureau of Biologics, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
³ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
⁴ School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

ABSTRACT

A third component, HB_eAG/3, of the hepatitis B e antigen system has been detected, and it was consistently detected in three variations of the double-diffusion technique.