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Revision as of 19:00, 28 July 2014

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]

Some patients, particularly young children, are asymptomatic. When symptoms are present, they usually occur abruptly and can include the following:

Fever
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Nausea
Vomiting
Abdominal pain
Dark urine
Clay-colored stool
Joint pain
Jaundice (Children younger than 6 years of age typically do not show jaundice, while more that 70% of older patients do.)
Pruritus

↑ Krugman S, Giles JP (1970). "Viral hepatitis. New light on an old disease". JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association. 212 (6): 1019–29. PMID 4191502. Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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-[[Hepatitis A virus]] ([[HAV]]) infection can be either [[asymptomatic]] or [[symptomatic]].<ref name="pmid4191502">{{cite journal |author=Krugman S, Giles JP |title=Viral hepatitis. New light on an old disease |journal=[[JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association]] |volume=212 |issue=6 |pages=1019–29 |year=1970 |month=May |pmid=4191502 |doi= |url= |accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref>. [[Symptoms]] of [[hepatitis A]] include [[fever]], [[fatigue]], [[loss of appetite]], [[nausea]], [[vomiting]], [[abdominal pain]] and [[jaundice]].
+[[Hepatitis A virus]] ([[HAV]]) infection can be either [[asymptomatic]] or [[symptomatic]].<ref name="pmid4191502">{{cite journal |author=Krugman S, Giles JP |title=Viral hepatitis. New light on an old disease |journal=[[JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association]] |volume=212 |issue=6 |pages=1019–29 |year=1970 |month=May |pmid=4191502 |doi= |url= |accessdate=2012-02-28}}</ref>  [[Symptoms]] of [[hepatitis A]] include [[fever]], [[fatigue]], [[loss of appetite]], [[nausea]], [[vomiting]], [[abdominal pain]] and [[jaundice]].
 ==Symptoms==