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The clinical recognition of dioxin-associated illness can be extremely difficult for the physician. After analyzing the relative sensitivity and specificity of reported manifestations of exposure to 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), we suggest criteria for the diagnosis of dioxin toxicity.
BACKGROUND
Using a creative molecularbiologic technique in 1989 Choo and co-workers isolated a new virus of hepatitis C, an agent responsible for numerous cases of parenterally transmissible viral hepatitis. Hepatitis C virus is a RNA virus with unique genomic organisation. Six genotypes of
Mixed cryoglobulinaemia (MC) is a systemic vasculitis, secondary to the deposition in small and medium-sized blood vessels of circulating immune complexes, mainly the cryoglobulins, and complement. MC is characterised by a typical clinical triad (purpura, weakness, arthralgias) and by one or more
Acute as well as chronic infections by HBV and HCV can be associated with extrahepatic disease. As in liver disease of non-viral etiology, several extrahepatic manifestations can be observed that are non-specific for HBV or HCV, e.g. those clinical signs and symptoms frequently encountered when