icon-folder.gif   Conference Reports for NATAP  
 
  64rd Annual Meeting of the
American Association for the
Study of Liver Diseases
Washington, DC Nov 1-5 2013
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Shifting scales: comparing viral hepatits and HIV/AIDS mortality in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
 
 
  Reported by Jules Levin, AASLD 2013 Nov 1-5 Wash DC
Benjamin C. Cowie & Jennifer H. MacLachlan
WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Hepatits B, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory; and The University of Melbourne
 
AASLD: The global burden of liver disease attributable to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and alcohol: increasing mortality, differing causes - (11/08/13)

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6. Cowie et al. Mortality due to viral hepatitis in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010: new evidence of an urgent global public health priority. Antiviral Therapy 2013.