While hepatitis C viral infection is a known risk factor for liver cancer, Dr.

同时证实部分淋巴肿瘤也是C型肝炎病毒引起。

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Viral hepatitis (B or C) is the most common cause for macronodular cirrhosis. Wilson's disease and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency also can produce a macronodular cirrhosis.

病毒性肝炎（乙型或丙型）是大结节型肝硬化的最常见病因，Wilson’s病和alpha-1-抗胰蛋白酶缺陷也能产生肝大结硬化。

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"We identified a high number of newly diagnosed viral hepatitis cases, especially hepatitis c, in addition to the HIV diagnoses," comment the authors.

“除了艾滋病感染新诊病例外，我们还鉴别出大量的病毒性肝炎新诊病例，特别是丙型肝炎，”作者指出。

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The company has tried to create new enthusiasm with with efforts to expand into hepatitis C, the viral liver disease that is looking like the next big drug market, and into other areas such as heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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Wall Street is bracing for one of the biggest new drug categories in a decade: the launch of a series of antiviral medicines that could dramatically improve the cure rate for hepatitis C, a viral disease that slowly attacks the liver and is often fatal.

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The drugs aim either to boost immune response or to attack and inactivate the viral enzymes that hepatitis C uses to replicate, in much the same way that AIDS drugs attack that virus.

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