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Wolf Szmuness was affiliated with the New York Blood Center in the United States. Their career was marked by involvement in scientific research primarily connected to this institution.

There is no available data on recent papers, co-authors, main publication venues, or book publications associated with Wolf Szmuness. Information about specific fields or subfields of study, as well as main topics of research, is also not present.

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Wolf Szmuness is deceased.

Best Publications

  • Hepatitis B vaccine: demonstration of efficacy in a controlled clinical trial in a high-risk population in the United States.

    Wolf Szmuness;Cladd E. Stevens;Edward J. Harley;Edith A. Zang

  • THE e ANTIGEN AND VERTICAL TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN

    R P Beasley;C Trepo;C E Stevens;W Szmuness

  • Serum alanine aminotransferase of donors in relation to the risk of non-A,non-B hepatitis in recipients: the transfusion-transmitted viruses study.

    R D Aach;W Szmuness;J W Mosley;F B Hollinger

  • A controlled clinical trial of the efficacy of the hepatitis B vaccine (Heptavax B): a final report

    Wolf Szmuness;Wolf Szmuness;Cladd E. Stevens;Cladd E. Stevens;Edith A. Zang;Edith A. Zang;Edward J. Harley;Edward J. Harley

  • Hepatitis B vaccine in patients receiving hemodialysis. Immunogenicity and efficacy.

    Cladd E. Stevens;Harvey J. Alter;Patricia E. Taylor;Edith A. Zang

  • HBeAg and anti‐hbe detection by radioimmunoassay: Correlation with vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus in Taiwan

    Stevens Ce;Neurath Ra;Beasley Rp;Szmuness W

  • Incidence of hepatitis B virus infections in preschool children in Taiwan.

    R. P. Beasley;L.-Y. Hwang;C.-C. Lin;M.-L. Leu

  • Hepatitis B Virus Antibody in Blood Donors and the Occurrence of Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis in Transfusion Recipients: An Analysis of the Transfusion-Transmitted Viruses Study

    Cladd E. Stevens;Richard D. Aach;F. Blaine Hollinger;James W. Mosley

  • Hepatitis B vaccine in medical staff of hemodialysis units: efficacy and subtype cross-protection.

    Wolf Szmuness;Cladd E. Stevens;Edward J. Harley;Edith A. Zang

  • On the Role of Sexual Behavior in the Spread of Hepatitis B Infection

    Wolf Szmuness;M. Isaac Much;Alfred M. Prince;Jay H. Hoofnagle

  • Efficacy of hepatitis B immune globulin for prevention of perinatal transmission of the hepatitis B virus carrier state: final report of a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

    R. Palmer Beasley;R. Palmer Beasley;Lu-Yu Hwang;Cladd E. Stevens;Chia‐Chin ‐C Lin

  • HEPATITIS B IMMUNE GLOBULIN (HBIG) EFFICACY IN THE INTERRUPTION OF PERINATAL TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS CARRIER STATE: Initial Report of a Randomised Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial

    R. Palmer Beasley;Chia Chin Lin;Kwei Yu Wang;Fon Jou Hsieh

  • A serologic study of cytomegalovirus infections associated with blood transfusions.

    A. M. Prince;W. Szmuness;S. J. Millian;David S. David

  • Immunologic distinction between infectious and serum hepatitis.

    A. M. Prince;R. L. Hargrove;W. Szmuness;C. E. Cherubin

  • Hepatitis B infection. A point-prevalence study in 15 US hemodialysis centers.

    Wolf Szmuness;Alfred M. Prince;George F. Grady;Margaret K. Mann

  • Distribution of Antibody to Hepatitis A Antigen in Urban Adult Populations

    Wolf Szmuness;Jules L. Dienstag;Robert H. Purcell;Edward J. Harley

  • THE PREVALENCE OF ANTIBODY TO HEPATITIS A ANTIGEN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD: A PILOT STUDY

    Wolf Szmuness;Jules L. Dienstag;Robert H. Purcell;Cladd E. Stevens

  • Familial Clustering of Hepatitis B Infection

    Wolf Szmuness;Alfred M. Prince;Robert L. Hirsch;Betsy Brotman

  • A case/control study of the association between primary liver cancer and hepatitis B infection in Senegal.

    Alfred M. Prince;Wolf Szmuness;Jacqueline Michon;Jacques Demaille

  • Hepatitis A Virus Infection: New Insights from Seroepidemiologic Studies

    Jules L. Dienstag;Wolf Szmuness;Cladd E. Stevens;Robert H. Purcell

  • Viral hepatitis : 1981 international symposium

    Wolf Szmuness;Harvey J. Alter;James E. Maynard

Frequent Co-Authors

Cladd E. Stevens
Cladd E. Stevens Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Alfred M. Prince
Alfred M. Prince New York Blood Center
Jules L. Dienstag
Jules L. Dienstag Harvard University
Robert H. Purcell
Robert H. Purcell National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
James W. Mosley
James W. Mosley University of Southern California
Harvey J. Alter
Harvey J. Alter National Institutes of Health
Girish N. Vyas
Girish N. Vyas University of California, San Francisco
Jay H. Hoofnagle
Jay H. Hoofnagle National Institutes of Health
Atul K. Bhan
Atul K. Bhan Harvard University
Saul Krugman
Saul Krugman New York University

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