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Pathogenesis of acute infectious hepatitis

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to conclude, acute infectious hepatitis may be viewed as a generalized infection of virus nature which attacks the reticulo-endothelial system — spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow and liver. In cases such as in undernourished soldiers in whom the liver has been depleted of its protein and glycogen stores, there results the characteristic pathologic changes in the liver and associated symptomatology of this disease.

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Goodman, J.I. Pathogenesis of acute infectious hepatitis. Jour. D. D. 14, 26–29 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03001258

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