Evidence against hepatitis viruses as important causes of severe autoimmune hepatitis in the United States.

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To determine if the hepatitis viruses are important etiologic factors in autoimmune hepatitis, the clinical, immunoserologic, virologic and HLA phenotypes of 105 of the latter patients were assessed prospectively and compared to 45 patients with chronic viral hepatitis. Patients with autoimmune hepatitis were more often women with higher serum aspartate aminotransferase and immunoglobulin levels than patients...

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