1925– American virologist and research physician who discovered the ‘Australia antigen’ of the hepatitis B virus.
Keywords: australia antigen; hepatitis B
Blumberg, Baruch Samuel
Neeraja Sankaran, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002367
| Further Reading | |
| proceedings Blumberg BS (ed.) (1961) Conference on Genetic Polymorphism and Geographic Variations in Disease, Proceedings of the National Institute of Health. New York: Grune and Statton. | |
| book Millman I, Eisenstein TU and Blumberg BS (eds) (1984) Hepatitis B: the Virus, the Disease and the Vaccine. New York: Plenum Press. | |
| book Nishioka K and Blumberg BS (eds) (1985) Hepatitis Viruses and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Approaches Through Molecular Biology and Ecology. Orlando: Academic Press. | |
