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Three types of virus produce acute hepatitis in man. Hepatitis A has initially been identified as the agent most commonly producing infectious hepatitis, hepatitis B as the type causing most cases of serum hepatitis, and a non-A non-B virus has very recently been implicated in both forms of hepatitis (Alter et al., 1978). Hepatitis A and B viruses have been identified morphologically by electron microscopy and by various serological tests.
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Wilson, J.D., Simpson, S.I. (1980). Viral Hepatitis. In: Diagnostic Immunology and Serology: A Clinicians’ Guide. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1126-1_6
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