title: Viral hepatitis: some reflections on a personal journey.
abstract: The pathway to understanding a new field is often more fraught with issues than it appears from later accounts. The series of coincidences that led to my involvement in the field of viral hepatitis and the circuitous pathway leading to the development of the first hepatitis A vaccine is described from a personal perspective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. idg@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gust
mesh_terms: D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D022362:Hepatitis A Vaccines / Q000266:history* / Q000276:immunology*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D022362:Hepatitis A Vaccines