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  1. Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 500 Parnassus Avenue MU4E, San Francisco, CA, 94108, USA

    Michelle Rook

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, 02115, USA

    Maureen M. Jonas

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Rook, M., Rosenthal, P. (2010). Hepatitis A in Children. In: Jonas, M. (eds) Viral Hepatitis in Children. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-373-2_1

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