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delta hepatitis

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delta hepatitis

[‚del·tə ‚hep·ə′tīd·əs]
(medicine)
A type of viral hepatitis caused by the delta agent hepatitis D virus, a defective ribonucleic acid virus that requires the helper function of hepatitis B virus for its replication and expression.
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The patients were living in France when chronic delta hepatitis was diagnosed; however, because no risk factors were identified, each patient was suspected to have been infected during childhood in Africa.
Eighth major clade for hepatitis delta virus
The differential diagnosis of viral hepatitis includes hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, delta hepatitis, hepatitis E, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and cytomegalovirus (Table 3).
Hepatitis B virus infection, hepatitis B vaccine, and hepatitis B immune globulin
Chronic viral hepatitis, which results from chronic infection with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or delta hepatitis, is often a progressive disease that can lead to cirrhosis and its attendant complications of liver failure and portal hypertension.
Assessment of monoethylglycinexylidide as measure of liver function for patients with chronic viral hepatitis
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