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[Etiology and pathogenesis of viral hepatitis].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 Jan 2006
Echevarría-Mayo José Manuel
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In the strictest sense, the term "viral hepatitis" includes a series of clinical conditions of infectious origin caused by five phylogenetically unrelated human viruses that have developed specific tropism to hepatocytes. In a broader sense, it also includes acute liver diseases due to infection by other viruses that do not display specific liver tropism, but may produce liver disease as a complication of the...
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