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Second edition. Edited by Arie J. Zuckerman and Howard C. Thomas. 649 pp., illustrated. London, Churchill Livingstone, 1998. (Distributed by W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia.) $195. ISBN 0-443-05797-4.

Does viral hepatitis merit a 649-page, 10-lb review? It certainly does. Readers and the publisher appear to agree, because Viral Hepatitis has now appeared in a second edition. Hepatitis viruses are important agents of disease worldwide, and hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), which produce chronic infections, affect hundreds of millions of people. These two viruses cause most cases of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer in the world.

Viral Hepatitis, a multiauthored work, aims to present to clinicians, pathologists, and epidemiologists the best of our understanding of the basic virology of the hepatitis viruses and of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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