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Chronic infection is a feature of

  • A.none of the hepatitis viruses
  • B.hepatitis B, C and D
  • C.hepatitis A and E only
  • D.hepatitis A and B only

Answer: B

Correct answer: hepatitis B, C and D

The blood-borne viruses can persist; the enterically transmitted ones cannot, except in the immunosuppressed, where chronic hepatitis E has been described. The division is the same one that separates their routes of transmission, and it is why A and E cause outbreaks while B, C and D cause chronic disease.

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