non-A, non-B hepatitis

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non-A, non-B hepatitis

[‚nän ¦ā ‚nän ¦bē ‚hep·ə′tīd·əs]

(medicine)

A type of viral hepatitis that is most common among people who have received transfused blood and whose serologic tests show no evidence of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, or other types of virus such as Epstein-Barr.

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Many of the 250,000 to 466,000 people living with hepatitis C in the UK currently have no idea they have the disease, because it can remain symptomless for many years.

Huge rise in deaths from liver disease; Hepatitis C to blame for increase

About 90 percent of such cases show no evidence of the viruses responsible for hepatitis A or B; most probably result from hepatitis C virus, first identified in 1988.