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Hepatitis C (cont.)

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Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Indiana University.

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Bhupinder Anand, MD

Hepatitis C Causes

  • HCV is not related to the other viruses that cause hepatitis.
  • HCV is a small virus about 60 nanometers in size. It can only be seen using high power electron microscopes.
  • The virus contains nucleic acid in the form of RNA. Variations in the nucleic acid give rise to different 'genotypes' of HCV.
  • HCV reproduces ('replicates') primarily in liver cells

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