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Australia antigen and primary liver cancer

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Australia antigen, Au1, could not be identified in the sera of 35 American patients with primary liver cancer.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine and of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, From the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, USA

    Charles G. Moertel MD, Gerald J. Gleich MD & Edgar W. Hull MD

  2. the Medicine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

    Charles G. Moertel MD, Gerald J. Gleich MD & Edgar W. Hull MD

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  1. Charles G. Moertel MD
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  2. Gerald J. Gleich MD
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Drs. A. I. Sutnick, W. T. London and B. S. Blumberg confirmed the results of the immunodiffusion studies for the detection of Au1 in their laboratory.

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Moertel, C.G., Gleich, G.J. & Hull, E.W. Australia antigen and primary liver cancer. Digest Dis Sci 15, 983–985 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02232815

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