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hepatitis delta

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noun

Pathology.

  1. a severe form of hepatitis caused by an incomplete virus delta virus that links to the hepatitis B virus for its replication.

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By sifting through unprecedented amounts of existing genomic data, scientists have uncovered more than 100,000 novel viruses, including nine coronaviruses and more than 300 related to the hepatitis Delta virus, which can cause liver failure.

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