Hepatitis
Dr Baruch Samuel Blumberg M.D PhD
Discovery of the "Australia Antigen" (1965) Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, working on polymorphic blood proteins in populations, identified a protein in the blood of an Australian aborigine that reacted with serum from a leukemia patient.
This “Australia antigen” (later called HBsAg, Hepatitis B surface antigen) was key to identifying hepatitis
B.Blumberg’s team showed it was associated with hepatitis in transfused patients.
Hepatitis B In Electron Microscopy
In the 1970s, scientists confirmed that hepatitis B was caused by a DNA virus (unlike hepatitis A, an RNA virus).
Electron microscopy revealed Dane particles (named after David Dane), the complete form of the hepatitis B virus (HBV).
David Dane
Nobel Prize In Physiology/Medicine, 1976
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