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Comment
. 2021 Oct;75(4):994-995.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.04.039. Epub 2021 May 5.

Comment on "Autoimmune hepatitis developing after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine: Causality or casualty?"

Pier Leopoldo Capecchi  1 , Pietro Enea Lazzerini  2 , Stefano Brillanti  3
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Comment on "Autoimmune hepatitis developing after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine: Causality or casualty?"

Pier Leopoldo Capecchi et al. J Hepatol. 2021 Oct.
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Keywords: Autoimmune Hepatitis; COVID-19 vaccine; pregnancy.

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