Tests for acute and chronic viral hepatitis

Finding your way through the alphabet soup of infection and superinfection

Sammy Saab Dr Saab is senior fellow in gastroenterology/hepatology, division of digestive diseases, and Dr Martin is associate professor of medicine and director of hepatology, division of digestive diseases, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Medicine.Correspondence[email protected]

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Paul Martin Dr Saab is senior fellow in gastroenterology/hepatology, division of digestive diseases, and Dr Martin is associate professor of medicine and director of hepatology, division of digestive diseases, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Medicine.

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Viral causes of hepatitis are clinically indistinguishable from one another. This can be a problem because appropriate management often depends on the specific virus involved. Fortunately, advances in serologic and molecular testing now allow accurate identification of the viral causes of both acute and chronic hepatitis. In this article, Drs Saab and Martin discuss five important hepatitis viruses—A through E—and explain which tests are most helpful for deciding on management.

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