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Most of the damage to hepatocytes in all forms of viral hepatitis is not due to toxicity of the virus itself, but rather, it is the patient’s immune system which responds to the infection that actually damages the hepatocytes; cytotoxic T cells kill hepatocytes that contain the hepatitis viruses; by killing these hepatocytes the virus is destroyed and the patient almost always recovers, but ... ................
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