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Although autoimmune hepatitis has been recognized for more than 40 years, only the advent of diagnostic tests for infections with hepatitis B and C viruses has permitted it to be reliably identified. Even so, up to 5 percent of patients with autoimmune hepatitis have false positive tests for antibodies to hepatitis C virus, and about 10 percent of patients with viral hepatitis have autoantibodies. Nonetheless, it is clear that autoimmune hepatitis and hepatitis C are completely distinct conditions.^1,2 There is no evidence of a link between infection with one of the hepatotropic viruses and autoimmune hepatitis.^1,2 Like other autoimmune conditions, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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