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Hepadnaviridae
Sunday, December 21, 2008/ 6:02 AM
Hepadnaviridae is a partial dsDNA virus that causes liver infections in humans and animals.
Source of picture: wikipedia.org
1) acute: subclinical-icteric-fulminant
- loss appetite, nausea, vomiting, jaundice, fever & abdominal pain
- most acutely-infected adults can recover
- however, some acutely-infected adults become chronically infected.
2) chronic: asymptomatic-chronic persistent- chronic active
- show no symptoms and no abnormalities in lab testing.
- others have chronically apparent chronic hepatitis
- some go on to develop cirrhosis
- HCC
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