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Edited by Raymond S. Koff and George Y. Wu. 339 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2001. $99.50. ISBN 0-89603-880-7.

More than 2 billion people worldwide are infected with either hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) or both, and an estimated 500 million (about 3 million in the United States alone) have chronic infection with these viruses. The principal long-term sequelae of chronic HBV and HCV infection are cirrhosis and primary liver cancer. These diseases are prominent in countries where HBV infection is highly endemic and usually acquired in childhood, allowing their development in young adults. In the United States, where both HBV and HCV infection are generally acquired later in life and where the two infections . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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