Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wands, an assistant professor of medicine at the Medical School, has spent several years developing the test, which uses highly specific antibodies, called monoclonal, to identify the virus...
Hepatitis B, also known as scrum hepatitis, usually strikes adults, can cause cirrhosis, and is more severe than hepatitis A. Chronic carriers of the virus have a greater than normal chance of developing liver disease and cancer of the liver...
...study also showed that the virus stays in the blood far longer than was previously thought, causing carriers to transmit it even after they are thought to be risk-free...
...requires doctors to screen all donor blood for the virus before transfusion...
Monoclonal antibodies are hybrid cells, made up of antibody-producing cells fused with malignant ones. The hybrid cells can be cloned, allowing them to keep producing antibodies necessary to detect the virus...