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Dane particle
n : a spherical particle found in the serum in hepatitis B that is the virion of the causative virus Dane, David Maurice Surrey (b 1923), British pathologist. A group of British scientists, led by Dane, discovered the Dane particle in 1970. By 1974 the viral identity of the particle had been confirmed by scientists.
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