HEPATITIS B


Meaning of HEPATITIS B in English

noun Date: 1971 a sometimes fatal hepatitis caused by a double-stranded DNA virus (species Hepatitis B virus of the genus Orthohepadnavirus, family Hepadnaviridae ) that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted especially by contact with infected blood or other bodily fluids (as semen)

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