Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacology

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• Research Article
  Anti-Microbial and Anti-Fungal Activities of Methanol Extract of Argemone mexicana and its Potential Anti-Hepatitis Promises
  Author(s): Haruna Y and UkamakaHaruna Y and Ukamaka
  
  Hepatitis has been a major plague of mankind. The history of the discovery of causative viruses is one of the most fascinating scientific adventures of this half-century. Individualization of several types of hepatitis only emerged after world war two. Their identification has been associated with milestones which revolutionized medicine and public health. The discovery of HBV brought the first ever vaccine not prepared by tissue culture but initially directly from plasma and soon the first vaccine produced by genetic engineering. Increasing evidence suggest that Viral Hepatitis is a critical disease that kills about 15% to 25% people prematurely due to its infection. Treatment with available interferons only suppresses viral reproduction in about 40% to 90% of patients with chronic hepatitis. Most people do not have a permanent response and relapse is common; the medications do not c.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-1459.1000251

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